#human

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#character #elevation #faith #gain #give

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being. ↗

— June Singer

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An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cannot #experiment #human #important #justifiable

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. ↗

— Peter Singer

#complex #decision-making #even #human #long-term

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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Above all nations is humanity. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#all nations #humanity #nations

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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