You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights.
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.
If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.
Criticism of the Middle East should not be directed only at Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses are happening throughout the Arab world.
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.
I think it's important for people to stay human and remember that genuine human connection is more fulfilling than anything that technology has to offer. We all have it within us, and music is something that can bring that out of us.
I want to create a world with objects and surroundings that are human, more romantic, and less sterile.
We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
Human life is important and it feels like there is not a concern in communities of color. Very frustrated, but we will never give up and lose hope and change our system.
Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.
How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together!
Human beings need to feel that they are lovable and capable of loving.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
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