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“We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.”

Humans Wells Human Beings Function Isolation

Author:Robert Zemeckis

“These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.”

Humans Individual Easy Human Beings Function

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!”

Giving Humans Chance Human Beings Animal Function Sections Glands

Book:The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.”

Ifs Thinking Should Humans Human Beings Morality Function Objectives Genes Deceived Binding Disinterested

Author:E. O. Wilson

“We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.”

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Author:David Ben-Gurion

“One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.”

Humans Justice Human Beings Function

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.”

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Author:Herbie Hancock

“The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. Art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; Revolution was the construction of a universal church.”

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Book:1904-1912

Source: 1904-1912

“The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.”

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Author:Mary C. Ames

“The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.”

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Book:You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

Source: You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective