#human

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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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

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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

#aspects #being #feminine #human #human being

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

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