#human beings

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#brain #eighty #everything #face #face value

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#allow #back #beings #children #come

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#costumes #courage #day #every #every day

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#beings #birds #change #different #different place

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#along #beings #believe #better #come

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#beings #class #democratic #democratic society #fellowship

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#arrogant #beings #form #galaxy #human

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ↗

— Rollo May

#based #being #beings #dignity #emotion

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#beings #contributions #fellow #fellow human beings #her