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“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Might Fall Human Beings Known Roles Five Happened Months Lucky Married Well Known Get Well Nightclubs

Author:Eric McCormack

“But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.”

Humans Stories Values Fall Human Beings Our Lives Despair Evidence Patterns Contrary Setting Settings Depressing Chaotic

Book:A Short History Of Myth

Source: A Short History Of Myth

“A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.”

Ifs Knows Humans Fall Human Beings Accepting Grace Equal Neighbor Severity

Author:Stefan Zweig

“You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.”

Source: The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems

“There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.”

Humans Fall Challenges Human Beings Genius Mets

Book:My Years as Prime Minister

Source: My Years as Prime Minister

“The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.”

Humans Order Fall Challenges Human Beings Economy Capitalism Injustice Currents Genuine Factors Rejects Willingness Something Better Irrationality

Author:Jim Stanford

“With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.”

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Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.”

Humans Faces Humanity Fall Human Beings Understood Discrimination Bigotry Stereotype

Author:Anna Quindlen

“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!”

Humans Dies Fall Human Beings Imagine Youth Misery Privilege Painful Enjoyment Perpetual Solitary Decay Sincerely Deliverance Insufferable

Author:James Sharp

“If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.”

Ifs World Way Humans Ends Whole Fall Human Beings Forget Proud Creatures Slave Whole World Honorable

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.”

“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.”

“We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.”

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Author:Myles Munroe