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'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Most security failings happen because of human actions that are not envisaged when designing systems.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.
I monitor very carefully, in the automobile sector in particular, the development of new technologies which help to limit negative effects on the environment by influencing human actions.
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.
Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.
Everything that happens in the life of a human being, especially artists, who are supposed to be more sensitive, yes, it can affect you. In Lebanon I saw 10- and 12-year-old kids walking around with guns, and I understood how much human actions affect people.
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.