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How to use the word human in a Sentence? Page #175

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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Anatole France

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Plato

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No human thing is of serious importance.

Plato

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Ferris Cameron has never been in love -- at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

Joseph Farrell

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To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

William Arthur Ward

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The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Albert Camus

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A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Albert Camus

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He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Albert Camus

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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stephen Hawking

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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Mitch Ratcliffe

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The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

Frank Herbert

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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Hippocrates

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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

D. H. Lawrence

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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

Sydney Harris

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As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Sydney Harris

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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Samuel Johnson

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