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- It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.
- David Shore, House M.D., Three Stories, 2004
- Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
- John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
- Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- This life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes you just need to cling to the person that you can claw your way out of the dark with.
- Chris Dingess, Being Human, Wouldn't It Be Nice (If We Were Human), 2011
- Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
- Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
- There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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