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Letter "H" » Humanity
«One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?»
«One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.»
Author: Anna Julia Cooper
(Teacher, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
Interest,
Passion,
Religion
| Keywords:
hum, human voice, humming, Hums, occasionally, rush, The Hum, voices
«Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.»
Author: Harry Chapin
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
1970's,
Folk,
Humanity,
Hunger,
Musicians,
Philanthropy
«People ask me all the time, 'What are you, a Democrat or a Republican? A Catholic or a Muslim...' What am I? I am none of these. I belong to nothing but the human race. Why isn't that ever enough?»
«People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment...»
Author: Miyamoto Musashi
(Martial Arts master)
| About:
Humanity,
People
| Keywords:
bewilderment, mistakenly
«No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
| About:
Belief,
Humanity
| Keywords:
demanding, destroy, empirical, evidence
«Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.»
«Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.»
«Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Achievement,
Beauty,
Glory,
Humanity,
Knowledge,
Truth,
Virtue
| Keywords:
abided, abide by, Abide With Me, abiding, glory, on paper, paper
«One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
contemporary, dedicate, dedicates, dedicating, flowering, fostered, fostering, fosters, humanity, one way, The Contemporary, to that
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