Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.
Peter Morgan
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Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.
Ken Robinson
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I really like investigating the things that make us human.
Sonya Walger
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I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.
Ellen Burstyn
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I agree Maria Blasco has achieved amazing things with telomerase induction and we are hopeful this will translate to the human model.
Liz Parrish
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I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.
Antony Gormley
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Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don't need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise - the Wicked Witch.
Richard K. Morgan
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We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Robert Mugabe
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau
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I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
Robert Winston
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But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.
Donald Johanson
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There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.
Peter Singer
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Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
Joan D. Vinge
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You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.
Kurt Braunohler
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri Aurobindo
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UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.
Ellen Ullman
DoingYouKnowHumanAlwaysSystem
What we must not do - what we must never do - is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow Americans, for something they cannot control, and deny what makes them human.
Loretta Lynch
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No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
Annie Jump Cannon
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I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.
Ricardo Semler
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United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.
Matt Busby
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I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.
Henry Kissinger
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Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.
Ron Fournier
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The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Dawn Powell
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