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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about human imperfections

It is not accidental that all phenomen of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about life, nature, human imperfections, things, man

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

Quote by James Payn about example, poverty, human imperfections

Make no mistake, I am not about to walk through the door in three or four days' time and announce that I know everything about football management.

Quote by Stuart Pearce about human imperfections, football, mistake, day, time

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about history, change, soul, heart, mind, human imperfections, good, good luck

Human cloning is coming.

Quote by Mike Pence about people, human imperfections

In promoting national security, economic prosperity and the sanctity of human life, conservatives made measurable gains in 2003.

Quote by Mike Pence about society, prosperity, security, human imperfections, life

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Quote by Mike Pence about politics, destruction, research, americans, use, human imperfections, life

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

Quote by Mike Pence about science, human imperfections

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and...

Quote by Li Peng about stability, evolution, progress, future, peace, human imperfections, world

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about human imperfections

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Quote by Bill Crosby about people, earth, home, children, human imperfections

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli about ambition, human imperfections

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin about happiness, wealth, human imperfections, day, good, good luck

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin about human imperfections, mistake, affair, public

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love, objects, reason, human imperfections, world, man

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love, existence, human imperfections

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Quote by Erich Fromm about man, weakness, culture, human imperfections

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Quote by Erich Fromm about beauty, man, nature, human imperfections

Childhood the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about childhood, youth, sin, age, olderness, human imperfections, life