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Letter "H" » human species
«Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.»
«Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
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afflict, aspire, diminish, human species, prolong, routes, well-being
«The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings / woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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artists, compose, delicate, delights, divinity, enervated, enervating, enriching, evening star, female, flow, fortunes, human species, in general, jewels, lasting, livelier, lively, philosophical, poets, species, sufferings, tend, The Source
«The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.»
«Art Exist for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world»
«Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Laughter
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confined, human species, one species, privileges, species
«Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
human species, including, indifferent, species, survival
«If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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disposal, elsewhere, human species, organization man, rival, slightest, superiority
«Cities are the abyss of the human species»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Cities
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abyss, cities, human species, species, The Abyss
«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»
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