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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Being Beings Books Every Holy Human Human Beings Koran Other Shows Sign Thrown Together

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In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.

~Christopher Lloyd

Topics: Actual Anymore Audience Beings Comedies Fact Hear Human Human Beings Laugh Laughing Live Many Most Point Share Show Some Studio Stuff Sure Those Too Tracks Who Wonder You

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As human beings, we're powerfully swayed by how much we feel we're being respected. People comply with agreements if they feel they've been treated fairly and lash out if they don't.

~Christopher Voss

Topics: Agreements Been Being Beings Fairly Feel How How Much Human Human Beings Much Out People Respected Swayed Treated

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Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

~Chuck Jones

Topics: Beings Broke Bucket Buy Go Human Human Beings Light Line Miles Selling Sunshine Try Up Will You

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I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

~Ciaran Hinds

Topics: Beings Believe Contradictions Great Human Human Beings Mass

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I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

~Ciaran Hinds

Topics: Behind Beings Classical Down Front Getting Got Hard Hard Work Human Human Beings Nose Present Who Work

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With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.

~Claire Foy

Topics: Because Beings Compassion Distant Family Feel Human Human Beings Idealize Just Just Because Loss Love Mean Off Pain People Room Royal Royal Family Royalty See Sheen Takes Them Want You

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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: About Always Because Been Beings Bible Biographies Biography Choose Curious Experience Human Human Beings Lives Look Other Popular Programmed Read Reading Something Very Why Write

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Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Beings Dickens Human Human Beings Lover

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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

~Claude Mckay

Topics: Beings Development Grow Human Human Beings Like Nations Plants Thwarted

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