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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. -- Dalai Lama
I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion. -- Dalai Lama
Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions. -- Greg Graffin
She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly. -- Robert K. Massie
Jesus does not demand of us higher standards, he offers us himself. Jesus does not require of us super-human ability or commitments. He gives us his ability and grace. -- Ronnie McBrayer
The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking. -- John Ortberg
And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest. -- Cressida Cowell
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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts. -- Heywood Broun
The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have. -- Eleanor Catton
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances. -- Viktor E. Frankl
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. -- Jane Goodall
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy. -- Thomas Woods
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected. -- William Glasser
As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. -- Rufus Sewell
There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible. -- John W. Rogers, Jr.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. -- Salman Rushdie
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. -- Ron Wyden
What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred. -- Antony Beevor
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. -- Milan Kundera
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. -- Nathaniel Branden
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams
I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. -- Thomas Jane
Human willingness to believe precedes their ability to think. -- Toba Beta
Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind. -- Napoleon Hill
The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams. -- William Hurt
Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human -- Veronica Roth
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. -- Robert A. Heinlein
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being. -- Jeff Bezos
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. -- Hugh Blair
The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships. -- Amy Dickinson
Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create. -- Robert E. Ornstein
The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure. -- Lofty Wiseman
Cinema's characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind. -- Satyajit Ray
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features. -- Leon Uris
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. -- Bernard Beckett
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships. -- Gore Vidal
The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship. -- Walter Russell
For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human. -- Izzeldin Abuelaish
The stages of human development are to strive for:(1) Besitz [Possession](2) Wissen [Knowledge](3) KÃ¶nnen [Ability](4) Sein [Being -- Erwin Schrodinger
The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Are you really speechless or has the vodka finally impaired your ability to function like a normal human? -- Heidi McLaughlin
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. -- Cinda Williams Chima
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky. -- Jim Rohn
Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act. -- Jeffry A Timmons
What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love. -- Henri Nouwen
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes. -- Jim Rohn
Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love. -- Ziggy Marley
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. -- Terry Orlick
Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human. -- Terry Pratchett
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope! -- Billy Graham
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think. -- Franz Grillparzer
Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess. -- Haruki Murakami
To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser. -- Donald L. Hicks
For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. -- Alice Miller
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. -- Gregory Maguire
A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good. -- Varlam Shalamov
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. -- Christopher Hitchens
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. -- Dennis Gabor
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes. -- Helen Lynd
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind. -- James F. Cooper
The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane. -- Ken Danby
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that. -- Andrew McMahon
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn -- Nathaniel Branden
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist -- M. F. K. Fisher
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability. -- Timothy Keller
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Twitter represents a collective collaboration that manifests our ability to unconsciously connect kindred voices through the experiences that move us. As such, Twitter is a human seismograph. -- Brian Solis
Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm. -- Bill Gates
No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it." -- Neal Stephenson
But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back. -- Elizabeth Smart
In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view. -- James Cash Penney
Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives -- Torey L. Hayden
I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. -- Thomas Jane
Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived. -- Rick Perlstein
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. -- Hyman G. Rickover
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. -- Hyman G. Rickover
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup. -- Jeremy Begbie
Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation. -- Daniel Goleman
There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others. -- Fred Alan Wolf

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