#human

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? ↗

— Jared Diamond

#development #did #different #human #human development

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic. ↗

— Robert Blake

#dyslexic #human #human being #i #machine

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#being #brought #conviction #even #existence

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#cause #devoted #equality #family #human

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#dynamic #faith #finest #human #human qualities

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#angelic #created #elves #graceful #human strength

Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.' ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#boy #call #come #dirty #elf

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#chart #destiny #determination #good #greatest

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#being #bother #clown #human #human being

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believe #biology #determinism #doctors #done