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As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being. ”
The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. ”
The Boston College community took a personal interest in my success, not only as a student but as a human being. ”
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable. ”
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration. ”
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom. ”
I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart. ”
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it. ”
A wonderful innovation of the Occupy Wall Street movement was the use of the human microphone - the name given to the body of the audience repeating, amplifying, each statement made by the speaker. ”
When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences. ”