#hum

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

#human suffering #humanitarian #knowledge #man #mankind

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#cooperation #flourishing #fully #groups #human

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion. ↗

— Emmeline Pankhurst

#each #enemy #far #governments #human

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#any #coach #coaching #different #human

I had a dream about you. You were a floating blue blob, and I was a painter in a spacesuit floating through the cosmos trying to catch you and imprison you in my painting. I really need to dream more, because that sounds too much like Tuesday nights at Albino Al’s to be considered fantasy. 
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— Dora J. Arod

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#city #convinced #drama #everyone #feel

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. ↗

— Walter Pater

#culture #eager #human #human spirit #life

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#came #compassion #deep #exalted #high

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#absurd #always #could #death #humanity

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#art #considered #crystal #deepest #devoid