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The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about literature, concentration, human imperfections, power, things, contentment

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. Simone

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about human imperfections, being, woman, man

Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human love the growth of human will?

Quote by George Gordon Byron about human imperfections, love

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Quote by Hanns Eisler about music, human imperfections, life

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

Quote by Bill Gates about human imperfections

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about sadness, human imperfections, vice, absolute, pain, society, fear, death

Human nature doesn't include all human beings, there are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nature, human imperfections, politics, religion

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Quote by Theodore Parker about human imperfections, wealth, fire, fire brigade, heart

True religion must fight against Evil in man and be aside him, being the only way to avoid existing Evil of the human self in another type of Evil that will be closer to Good or could even surpass it in Goodness. It will consequently determine...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about religion, self-control, human imperfections, perfection, being, fight, good, good luck, man

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Quote by Czeslaw Milosz about people, human imperfections

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Quote by Carol Shields about word, language, use, human imperfections, life

Human vigor, the vigor of human species lies in the ability to create myth, new myths.

Quote by Nicolae Breban about people, myth, human imperfections, ability

Money gives ephemeral and false human value. If we gave them up, human world would be, a part of it, a room with empty glasses and bottles after a spree.

Quote by Mariana Fulger about money, human imperfections, value, world

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Quote by Aristotel about courage, quality, human imperfections

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, language, past, future, mind, human imperfections

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to aknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

Quote by Lewis Thomas about feelings, human imperfections, time

It is too full o the milk of human kindness.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, human imperfections

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about civilization, books, human imperfections

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Quote by Charles Babbage about knowledge, tools, human imperfections

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Quote by Charles Babbage about economy, human imperfections, time