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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about joy, equality, pleasure, happiness, human imperfections

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, objects, present, future, human imperfections, moment

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, human imperfections

This is what I do for a living and it's not who I am as a human being.

Quote by Don Johnson about human imperfections, being

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Quote by Don Johnson about human imperfections, being

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Quote by James Joyce about philosophy, human imperfections, being

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Quote by Franz Kafka about error, human imperfections

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Quote by Franz Kafka about self-control, human imperfections

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Quote by Aldous Huxley about people, infinite, human imperfections, things

Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, reliability, people, computers, human imperfections

Millions of people believe they are animals, but I have yet to meet one that believe in Windows' stability. Even human stupidity has limits.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, stability, limits, faith, stupidity, animals, human imperfections, people

To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about error, companies, human imperfections

Spending enough time and money, all human behavior can be psychologically explained.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about money, human imperfections, time

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about religion, history, idea, human imperfections

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Quote by Beth Orton about opinion, dance, beginning, music, human imperfections

I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.

Quote by Kelly Osbourne about opinion, animals, human imperfections, contentment

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

Quote by Clive Owen about character, human imperfections

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Quote by Camille Paglia about television, reality, books, human imperfections, life

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Quote by Thomas Paine about opinion, christianity, power, human imperfections

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end, it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Quote by Thomas Paine about war, unforeseen, trains, circumstances, progress, wisdom, human imperfections, end, things