Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.

Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia.

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.

I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.

Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we've forgotten about our inner power.

I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.

Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

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