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“Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.”

Should Humans Mean Sound Human Beings One Thing Birth Factors Bleak Unifying

Author:Nick Cave

“Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.”

Writing Humans Character Human Beings Acting Written One Thing Shallow

Author:Kari Matchett

“I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.”

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.”

“Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.”

Way Humans Has Beens Seems Individual Process Human Beings One Thing Height Premises Something Better Presumption

Book:Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays

Source: Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays

“Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.”

People Way Humans Facts Human Beings Practice One Thing Human Nature Bisexual

Author:Gore Vidal

“As long as I'm living, I'm always going to try and become and get to whatever is next. Even when I become this one thing, when I get there, I'm going to try and become something else. As human beings, as long as we're alive, we're forever becoming.”

Trying Humans Long Next Human Beings Forever Alive One Thing Becoming

Author:Stacy Barthe

“Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.”

Needs Humans Water Human Beings Common One Thing Blessing Saving Curse Conservation Whales Save A Life Reefs Marshes Coral Reefs

Author:Alexandra Cousteau

“I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.”

Humans Ideas Next Human Beings Emotion Records One Thing One Day Sitting

Author:Lauren Mayberry

“The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.”

People Humans Character Can Do Human Beings Rooms Audience One Thing Journey Emotional Smart Online Satisfying Smart People

Author:Frank Spotnitz

“When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.”

Want Humans Looks Human Beings One Thing Ordinary Mirrors

Author:Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

“Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.”

Humans Earth Water Human Beings One Thing Air Bird Fishes Swim

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want to see a cancer picture. There is only one thing worth saying about cancer, and that is that there are human beings in cancer wards.”

Want Years Humans Two Hate Human Beings One Thing I Hate Cancer Studios Two Years

Author:James L. Brooks

“One thing I want to emphasize is that, like any human being, we can discuss our view of the economy and the market. Fortunately for our clients, we don't tend to operate based on the view. Our investment strategy is to invest bottom up, one stock at a time, based on price compared to value. And while we may have a macro view that things aren't very good right now - which in fact we feel very strongly we will put money to work regardless of that macro view if we find bargains. So tomorrow, if we found half a dozen bargains, we would invest all our cash.”

Ifs Want Feels Humans May Facts Values Found Human Beings Views Half Economy One Thing Tomorrow Right Now Strategy Investment Bottom Very Good Cash Dozen Very Strong Clients Bargains Macro

Author:Seth Klarman

“And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.”

Humans Waiting Goal Human Beings Teach One Thing Lessons Letting Go Intellectual Patient Contemporary Void Baggage Superfluous Hyper Multi Tasking

Author:George Pattison