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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
Catharine MacKinnon
Sense
Nothing
Dawn
Idea
Most
Dogma
Going
Essential
Human
Anyone
Ask
Shot
Who
Universal
My first movie, 'Thirteen,' and it was very real - almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I'd love to do something like that again.
Catherine Hardwicke
Love
First
Gritty
Too
Something
Emotion
Raw
Almost
Like
Real
Very
Human
Movie
Again
Thirteen
Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.
Catherine Malandrino
Myself
Fur
Indulgence
Lot
Human
Human Beings
Many
Beings
Default
My stepson is a caring, considerate, worthy human being.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Human Being
Caring
Considerate
Worthy
Human
Being
When people are your greatest asset, like at Deloitte, investments in human capital should be considered in the same way other companies might invest significantly in product R&D.
Cathy Engelbert
People
Other
Considered
Way
Invest
Investments
Like
Greatest
Greatest Asset
Same
Human
Might
Capital
Should
Product
Your
Companies
Asset
Consider one possible future that could occur soon, where autonomous trucks travel highways with a human 'monitor' in the cab who can assist with particularly challenging driving like navigating city centres and ensure goods are delivered safely.
Cathy Engelbert
Future
Travel
Consider
Ensure
Possible
City
Cab
Could
Delivered
Driving
Trucks
Soon
Highways
Goods
Like
Particularly
Safely
Occur
Human
Where
Autonomous
Who
Challenging
Monitor
Assist
My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.
CeeLo Green
Life
Success
Truth
Experience
Listening
Walks
Cosmic
Something
Varied
Individual
Had
No-One
Exempt
Intangible
Human
Regard
Human Experience
Palette
Universal
For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.
Celeste Ng
Me
Relationships
Plot
Tackle
Begins
Any
Human
Story
Human Relationships
Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.
Cenk Uygur
Women
Sex
Genes
Along
Obviously
Women Are
Get
Often
Human
Want
Race
Flawed
Poorly
Who
Human Race
Creatures
Nearly
Designed
Needed
To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.
Cesare Beccaria
Made
Feeling
Increases
Relation
State
Severity
Diminish
Punishment
Must
Constant
Object
Spirits
Maintain
Between
Wishes
Gentle
Human
Sensibility
Social
Extent
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!
Cesare Beccaria
Good
Happy
Progress
Evil
Slow
Few
Other
Those
Extremity
Laws
Till
Waited
Prudent
Human
Nations
Transition
Produce
Should
Succession
It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human passions. They multiply at a compound rate with the growth in population and the interlacing of particular interests that cannot be directed with geometrical precision towards the public utility.
Cesare Beccaria
Conflict
Impossible
Compound
Rate
Directed
Towards
Particular
Geometrical
Passions
Anticipate
Precision
Human
Cannot
Public
Interests
Multiply
Population
Utility
Growth
Universal
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
Chaim Potok
Today
Travel
Experience
People
Become
Speed
Other
Because
Readings
Very
Quickly
Human
Which
Human Experience
Planet
Media
Aware
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
Chaim Potok
Religion
Man
Experience
Odds
Ways
Religions
Countenance
Almost
Almost All
Adversary
Another
Because
Freud
Western
Human
Human Experience
View
Elements
Found
Utterly
Two
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
Chaim Potok
Experience
Reading
Alive
Stay
Only
Argue
Altogether
Human
Order
Human Experience
Certain
Fundamentalism
Necessity
I think when you think about immigration, what we need to do is realize that that human capital, if put in a place to succeed, will literally sacrifice everything.
Chamath Palihapitiya
You
Immigration
Will
Sacrifice
Think
Everything
About
Put
Human
Literally
Place
Succeed
Capital
Realize
Need
Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.
Charles A. Beard
Politics
Nature
Politician
Human Nature
He
Supreme
Because
Understood
Lincoln
Human
The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
Charles A. Beard
History
Progress
Stage
Difficult
Society
Cross-Section
Given
Study
Reveals
Accidental
Causes
Been
Continuous
Get
Any
Often
Human
Depending
Regular
View
Human Progress
Apparently
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
Charles Babbage
Time
Machinery
Advantage
Economy
Human
Next
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
Charles Bent
Life
God
Prayer
Will
Single
Put
Joyful
Real
End
Get
Human
Conformity
Much
Human Life
Full
Granted
Desire
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
Charles Edison
Hate
Tyranny
King
Field
No Desire
Charles
Part
Go
Any
Human
Human Activity
Activity
Play
Desire
Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.
Charles Hazlewood
Happiness
Wisdom
People
Joy
Genius
World
Dance
Few
Pain
Else
Constantly
Fine
Fine Line
Something
More
Absolute
He
Between
Know
Most
Line
Condition
Western
Up
Western World
Heartbreak
Than
Few People
Human
Anyone
Anyone Else
In-Between
Human Condition
Which
Mozart
Captured
Grow
Grow Up
Why
Necessarily
Received
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
Charles Horton Cooley
Government
Freedom
Other
Churches
Reconstruction
Properly
Wrong
Fail
Perform
Like
Institutions
Industries
Than
Contribute
Human
Far
Human Freedom
Whole
Function
Need
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
Charles Inglis
Happiness
Wisdom
Government
Better
Before
Duty
Considered
Comprehend
Only
Attained
Human
Which
Explain
Human Happiness
Us
Should
Means
Injunction
Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.
Charles Lindbergh
Life
Background
Wildness
Ancestral
We Cannot
Ourselves
Must
Civilization
Never
Never Forget
Primitive
Forget
Human
Cannot
Centuries
Created
Separate
Should
Human Life
Nourished
Based
Millions
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
Charles Mengel Allen
Sometimes
More
Sophisticated
Motives
Than
Same
Human
Automobile
Board
Uses
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