{"quotes":[{"text":"Biomasses are a biological reality that cannot be denied as existing, but even though they exist physically, yet they have not attained the height of Homo sapiens. Humans could be termed as biomasses when they don’t fully put into use their human qualifications. Men and women that don’t bother to think. Men and women that don’t bother to notice things that are out of order. People who are indifferent about the happenings around them. Men and women that don’t respond with solution to the challenges of the era. All of these people are united by one common name BIOMASSES.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["biology","biomass","challenges","happenings","humans","physical","reality","solution","united"],"id":72,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.","author":"Megan McCafferty","tags":["human-nature","humans","jessica-darling","significance"],"id":419,"author_id":"Megan+McCafferty"},{"text":"If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you to do astrophysics… to write poetry... To fall in love. Put under that description, when asked 'What’s so special about humans...?', I’m at a loss to know how to answer that question. If you don’t see why we’d be special… because we can do poetry [and] think philosophical thoughts [and] we can think about the morality of our behavior, I’m not sure what kind of answer could possibly satisfy you at that point....I could pose the same kinds of questions of you... So God says, 'You are guys are really, really special.' How does his saying it make us special? 'But you see, he gave us a soul.' How does our having a soul make us special? Whatever answer you give, you could always say… 'What’s so special about that?","author":"Shelly Kagan","tags":["calculus","complex-nervous-systems","debate","humanity","humans","meaning","poetry","purpose","special"],"id":1693,"author_id":"Shelly+Kagan"},{"text":"Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["business","corporate","end","execution","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","management","motivation","motivational","motivational","perfect-plan","philosophy","plan","planning","planning-something","the-end","victories","victory","win","winner","winners","winning","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":1774,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.","author":"Emma Donoghue","tags":["human-contact","humans","life","people"],"id":1853,"author_id":"Emma+Donoghue"},{"text":"Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["aim","aims","dream","dreams","energetic","energy","enthusiasm","enthusiastic","excite","excitement","exciting","goal","goals","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","old-age","old-aged","philosophy","target","targets","wisdom","wisdom","youth","youth-age","youthful","youthfulness"],"id":2142,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo was to say; it moves all the same. They were to be in a position to burn him if he would go on with it, with his preposterous nonsense about the earth moving round the sun, but he was to continue with the sublime assertion because there was something which he valued more than himself. The Truth. To recognize and to acknowledge What Is. That was the thing which man could do, which his English could do, his beloved, his sleeping, his now defenceless English. They might be stupid, ferocious, unpolitical, almost hopeless. But here and there, oh so seldome, oh so rare, oh so glorious, there were those all the same who would face the rack, the executioner, and even utter extinction, in the cause of something greater than themselves. Truth, that strange thing, the jest of Pilate's. Many stupid young men had thought they were dying for it, and many would continue to die for it, perhaps for a thousand years. They did not have to be right about their truth, as Galileo was to be. It was enough that they, the few and martyred, should establish a greatness, a thing above the sum of all they ignorantly had.","author":"T.H. White","tags":["humans","integrity","optimism","truth"],"id":2189,"author_id":"T.H.+White"},{"text":"Hug your customers but also offer handshake to your competitors.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit","amit-kalantri","brand","branding","branding","business","business","clients","competitors","corporate","customers","friendship","handshake","handshakes","hug","hugging","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","management","motivation","motivational","motivational","partnership","philosophy","rivals","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":2442,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Honor is the only thing that separates us from animals.","author":"Peter Tieryas","tags":["animals","honor","humans","separation"],"id":2494,"author_id":"Peter+Tieryas"},{"text":"This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["business","corporate","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","making-a-difference","marketing","modern","modern","modern-society","modernism","modernity","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","social-network","social-networking","social-networks","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":2944,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":915,"pages":92,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}