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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.
These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.
In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'
Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.
It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.
What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.
You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
Cellphone and other wireless radiation should be classified as a "probable human carcinogen."
At the end of the day we're humans. Treat others how you want to be treated or just be quiet.
An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.
When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.
I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.
Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.
Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges.
You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.
If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.
From the outside, I seem happy a lot. But, I'm human and it's not possible to always be happy.
But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.
I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.
We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.