#human beings

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for. ↗

— John Russell

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Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see. ↗

— Kurt Russell

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

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It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. ↗

— John Templeton

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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. ↗

— George Orwell

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ↗

— George Orwell

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