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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.


A. J. P. Taylor

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HUMAN ANGELS Yesterday I was, tomorrow I will be, but only Here and Now I Am.
HUMAN ANGELS Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
ROLLO MAY Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
NIKOLAI A. BERDYAEV Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. WELLS J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.
T. J. MILLER No Human Being can be more Human than another Human Being.
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MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
DAN BROWN When you are investing in J. P. Morgan,
BRAD HINTZ A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possibl...
MITCH RATLIFFE A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possibl...
MITCH RATCLIFFE A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible ...
MITCH RATCLIFFE A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible...
MITCH RATLIFFE History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human need...
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GRAHAM WATSON It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.
ANONYMOUS ANONYMOUS In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The trick for the defense is to personalize him -- to try to put a human face and give a human shape...
JOE RUSSONIELLO I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON A human is more dangerous than a carnivore itself
JAI SINGH I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others,
JAMES D. SASS Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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TERENCE MCKENNA I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
DAVID BOWIE Overall the capital markets were not strong for the company [J. P. Morgan],
ANDREW COLLINS There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
WILLIAM GODWIN Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
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GRAHAM WATSON Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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AHMET DAVUTOGLU It is easier to be human than to be a human being.
VIKRANT PARSAI The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations...
DANIEL H. WILSON There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
IRVIN KERSHNER I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.
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AMY WALDMAN Human rights is new for the military. They usually see human rights as a scapegoat, an instrument us...
INDRIA SAMEGO Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHT The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D.H. LAWRENCE The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D. H. LAWRENCE There's no magic more powerful than the human spirit.
VIC JAMES Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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MICHELLE PFEIFFER Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time s...
JOHN POLKINGHORNE As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...
GLORIA ESTEFAN I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I though...
DAVID BOWIE Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a ...
ERIC HOFFER We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
M. H. ABRAMS More than 30 human remains have been handed over to be identified.
MANUEL LUNA Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
EDMUND HILLARY Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
VERA BRITTAIN Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
VERA BRITTAIN Human beings, as species, have no more value than slugs.
JOHN DAVIS There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
JOHN SLOAN People with negative energies are more dangerous than human bombs.
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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DIEGO DELLA VALLE J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path...
BOB HOPKINS J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path...
BOB HOPKINS Once and for all is almost never, once and for all.
CHARLES M FORD II Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
WALLACE STEVENS If anything, we are enslaved more as human beings now than at any time, probably, in man's history. ...
ANTON LAVEY A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
MARK TWAIN I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.
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DAVID ORMSBY-GORE I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
GARY PLAYER Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
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P. A. MONSON Looking but not Seeing, Listening but not Hearing, Touching but not Feeling, Tasting but not Savorin...
P. A. MONSON And when you rub the ball on rump or belly,Remember what it looks like on the telly.
A. P. HERBERT To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as ...
A. P. GOUTHEV Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.
A. P. HERBERT This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any ...
A. P. HERBERT Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.
A. P. HERBERT Physical expression and attitude have no age, language, or species barrier."
P. A. MONSON The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused; most of us just don’t know enough ...
P. A. SPEERS #1 Dating Tip: Make Sure Your Date has a Conscience!
P. A. SPEERS Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their...
P. J. O'ROURKE The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P. J. O'ROURKE A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. MORGAN When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. MORGAN Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ...
J. P. MORGAN If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. MORGAN No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty...
J. P. MORGAN I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. DONLEAVY To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. DONLEAVY Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jur...
P. J. O'ROURKE My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
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