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“There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.”

Thinking Humans Kind Use Mother Human Beings Mistake Understood All Kinds Labels

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.”

Humans Running Humanity Human Beings Existence Buddhism Understood Encounters Running Away Rationalize

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.”

People Humans Has Beens Responsibility Roles Conditions Directors Understood Oneself Relate Human Condition

Author:Tom Skerritt

“The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.”

World Humans Ideas Moments Law Purpose Father Heaven Christ Human Nature This World Demand Understood Work Out Missions Redemption Substitutes Offering Atonement

Author:R. C. Sproul

“About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.”

Humans Wells Suffering Position Masters Walking Sorrow Eating Understood Window Opening

Author:W. H. Auden

“At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.”

Humans Kind Universe Moral Human Nature Understood Core Versions Code Maps Moral Code

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.”

Humans May Littles Human Beings Genius Understood Labor Chess Enterprise Pastime

Author:George Steiner

“Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.”

World Humans Soul Flower Understood Breathe Mysterious Fragrance Human Soul Mysterious World

Book:Noa Noa

Source: Noa Noa

“Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.”

Humans Littles Government Human Beings Understood Institutions Good Things Complexes Granted Complexity Assumption Activist Conception Fragile Lacking Intricate Implicit Complex Systems

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.”

Giving Humans Ends Motivational Remember Opportunity Human Beings Behinds Easier Understood Resources Critics Credit Generous Interaction Greatest Gifts Artifacts Giving Credit

Author:Maria Popova

“Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.”

Way Should Humans Political Order Social Democracy Rights Economic Understood Environmental Human Rights Absence Broads Threatened Unjust Degradation Environmental Degradation

Book:Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

“Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.”

Needs Humans Kind Understood Claims Paid Excellence Intellect Complement High Prices

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.”

People Humans States Whole Spiritual Values Understood Whole Life Conception Fascism Units Fascists Synthesis Spiritual Values

Author:Benito Mussolini