#human

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#attention #because #believed #blood #draw

The human capacity to be curious has always existed. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#because #body #cannot #conscious mind #cult thing

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#aesthetic #besides #comes #elements #fall

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. ↗

— Henry Villard

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