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# Human enhancement

Quotes related to Human enhancement.

## Sourced

* I was born human, but it was an accident of fate. … Humanity can change itself but hopefully it will be an individual choice. Those who want to stay human can and those who want to evolve into something much more powerful with greater capabilities can. There is no way I want to stay a mere human.
** Kevin Warwick, Frequently Asked Questions. Accessed 2008-04-30.
# Human resources

Human resources are the people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, or economy.

## Quotes

* Efficient exploitation of “human resources” requires that the structures that refer the others’ actions to the exploiter’s ends must extend beneath the victim’s skin. The exploiter has to bring about the partial disintegration and re(mis)integration of the others’ matter, parts and properties so that as organized systems the exploited are oriented to some degree by habits, skills, schedules, values and tastes to the exploiter’s ends rather than, as they would otherwise be, to ends of their own. In particular, the manipulations which adapt the exploited to a niche in another’s economy must accomplish a great reduction of the victim’s intolerance of coercion.
** Marilyn Frye, "In and Out of Harm's Way: Arrogance and Love," in The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 60
# George Wither

George Wither (June 11, 1588 – May 2, 1667) was an English poet and satirist.

## Quotes

* Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman’s fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, ’Cause another’s rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?
** The Shepherd's Resolution; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?", Sir Walter Raleigh, Poem.
* Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.
** Poem on Christmas; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, And therefore let ’s be merry.
** Poem on Christmas; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Hang sorrow! care ’ll kill a cat", Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act i. Sc. 3.
* Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.
** The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* And I oft have heard defended,— Little said is soonest mended.
** The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws.
** Contented Man’s Morrice; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* I loved a lass, a fair one, As fair as e'er was seen; She was indeed a rare one, Another Sheba queen: But, fool as then I was, I thought she loved me too: But now, alas! she's left me, Falero, lero, loo!
** I Loved a Lass; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390.
# George William Foote

George William Foote (11 January 1850 – 17 October 1915) was an English secularist and journal editor.

## Quotes

* It will yet be the proud boast of woman that she never contributed a line to the Bible.
** As quoted in The Bible (1901) by John Remsburg, p. 409

### Flowers of Freethought (1893)

* Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. It means caution, independence, honesty and veracity. Faith means negligence, serfdom, insincerity and deception. The man who never doubts never thinks. He is like a straw in the wind or a waif on the sea. He is one of the helpless, docile, unquestioning millions, who keep the world in a state of stagnation, and serve as a fulcrum for the lever of despotism. The stupidity of the people, says Whitman, is always inviting the insolence of power.
** "The Gospel of Freethought", p. 104
* Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a being but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.
** "Who Are The Blasphemers?" (June, 1882), p. 112
* There are two things in the world that can never get on together—religion and common sense. Religion deals with the next life, common sense with this; religion points to the sky, common sense to the earth; religion is all imagination, common sense all reason; religion deals with what nobody can understand, common sense with what everybody can understand; religion gives us no return for our investments but flash notes on the bank of expectation, common sense gives us good interest and full security for our capital. They are as opposite as two things can possibly be, and they are always at strife. Religion is always trying to fill the world with delusions, and common sense is always trying to drive them away. Religion says Live for the next world, and common sense says Live for this.
** "Christianity and Common Sense", p. 114
# George Winston

George Otis Winston III (December 26, 1949 – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist.

## Quotes

* I'm not a video person at all, I prefer to let the listener have their own impressions.
** INTERVIEW: George Winston (1 May 2019)

## External links

* Official website
# George Whyte-Melville

George John Whyte-Melville (19 June 1821 – 5 December 1878) was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field.

## Quotes

* When you sleep in your cloak there's no lodging to pay.
** Boots and Saddles.
* For everything created In the bounds of earth and sky Has such longing to be mated, It must couple or must die.
** Like to Like.
* Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot Than pine in a palace alone.
** Chastelar.
* The life upon which youth fancies itself entering is very different from the life which age refuses to acknowledge it is on the eve of quitting.
** The Autobiography of Captain Digby Grand, p. 672 of Fraser's Magazine, vol. 46, December 1852
* Then drink, puppy, drink, and let ev’ry puppy drink, That is old enough to lap and to swallow; For he’ll grow into a hound, so we’ll pass the bottle round, And merrily we’ll whoop and we’ll holloa.
** "Drink, Puppy, Drink", chorus
# George Whitefield

George Whitefield (16 December 1714 – 30 September 1770), also known as George Whitfield, was an Anglican itinerant Protestant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening in the Kingdom of Great Britain and, especially, in the British North American colonies. A leading evangelist and preacher of the era, he was one of the founders of Methodism in America. He became perhaps the best-known preacher in Britain and America in the 18th century, and because he traveled through all of the American colonies and drew great crowds and media coverage, he was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America.

## Quotes

* Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.
** Reported in Ernest Bormann, Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985), p. 73. ISBN 978-0-80932-369-2.
* Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 518.
* I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 543.

## Disputed

* Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?
** Attributed to Whitefield, in The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal, Vol. 49 (June 1773 - January 1774), p. 430; this has also been reported as a remark made by Rowland Hill, when he arranged an Easter hymn to the tune of "Pretty, Pretty Polly Hopkins, in The Rambler, Vol. 9 (1858), p. 191; it has also attributed to Charles Wesley, and sometimes his brother John, as well as William Booth, who popularized it as an addage in promoting his The Salvation Army.

## External links

* 38 Sermons by Whitefield at the 'Reformed Sermon' Archive
* George Whitefield's Journals project - Project to publish a complete edition of Whitefield's Journals
# Ebony Flowers

Ebony Flowers is an American prose writer and cartoonist.

## Quotes

* My process for making comics for research is very different from fiction and creative nonfiction comics. I studied how groups of young children and graduate students drew together, used drawing to play and pretend together, and drew as a means of creating new knowledge…
** On composing a large part of her dissertation as a comic in “A Space Where Past, Present, and Future Come Together: Ebony Flowers on Hot Comb” in Los Angeles Review of Books (2019 Jul 13)
* …I’m curious about how my memories — and other people’s memories, too — are tied to the senses, particularly touch. Memories triggered by engagement with one or more of the five senses can conjure up transformative moments in a person’s life. Unexpected sounds, scents, tastes, sights, and tactile experiences can move people outside the present moment and into a more playful space where past, present, and future come together…
** On taking an ethnographic approach to memories in “A Space Where Past, Present, and Future Come Together: Ebony Flowers on Hot Comb” in Los Angeles Review of Books (2019 Jul 13)
* …I consider these fantasy and futuristic visions as absurd as me acquiescing to someone else’s ideas about what counts as acceptable, attractive and beautiful. These parody ads are my attempt to envision a different future, in which black women inquire and inspire while loving their hair.
** On included mock advertisements in her work Hot Comb in “WESTWORD INTERVIEWS EBONY FLOWERS” in Drawn & Quarterly (2019 Jun 18)
* …When I read comics, I’m helping people to appreciate the power of pictures with words, and of words with pictures. Reading a comic, or a graphic novel, is different from reading a novel or describing a picture book. I care about pace, setting, tension, and the lives of my characters. I need to let my drawings speak for themselves while also narrating a story that benefits from this interplay of picture and verse…
** On doing a public reading of her graphic novel in “Denver's Ebony Flowers Debuts Graphic Novel Hot Comb” in Westword (2019 Jun 18)
# Ebenezer Kinnersley

Ebenezer Kinnersley (November 30, 1711 – July 4, 1778) was a scientist, inventor and lecturer, specializing in the investigation of electricity. He was also a Baptist minister.

## Sourced

* As the Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, and give us more noble, more grand, and exalted Ideas of the AUTHOR of Nature, and if well pursu'd, seldom fails producing something useful to Man.
** Advertisement for his Course of Experiments in Electricity, 1751.
# Ebola virus disease

Ebola virus disease (EVD), Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) or simply Ebola is a disease of humans and other mammals caused by an ebolavirus. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus, with a fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches. Typically, vomiting, diarrhea, and rash follow, along with decreased function of the liver and kidneys. Around this time, affected people may begin to bleed both within the body and externally. Death usually occurs within 7 to 16 days due to multiple orgadysfunction syndrome or hypovolemic shock.

## Quotes

* [The outbreak is] the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced.
** Margaret Chan, UN Cheat Sheet: 4 Things To Watch This Week (Sep. 22, 2014).
* For those who have yet to pledge, I say please do so soon, … This is an unforgiving disease.
** Ban Ki-moon, UN Chief: 20 Times More Ebola Aid Needed (Oct. 9, 2014).
* One of the sticking points of getting foreign medical staffs into these three countries has been the lack of medical evacuation.
** Jim Yong Kim, UN Chief: 20 Times More Ebola Aid Needed (Oct. 9, 2014).
* AIDS, Ebola, Lyme disease and SARS. Most of these are believed to have moved from wildlife to human populations.
** Mary Pearl president of the Wildlife Trust in a Newsweek magazine interview. Awake! magazine, article: Will Science Cure the World?, January 2007. BLACK DIE
* It's a very scary disease—kills people in a horrible way—and had there been an epidemic here, it would've been a terrible thing. But, only two people caught Ebola here in America; neither died. Even in West Africa, where there was an epidemic, more people were killed by other diseases like the flu. When the scare was at its peak, I tried to provoke the women on the Fox show Outnumbered by saying this: "This is an overhyped risk being pumped by news media like us." … Again, without putting up walls, no American caught Ebola here and died from it. By contrast, a hundred Americans were killed by deer this year.
** John Stossel, "Life or Death", Stossel (6 March 2015), 9:03–9:04 P.M. ET.
# Impossibility

Impossibility is the state of something not being possible. In law, such a state of affairs is a defense to a breach of contract — for example, a contract to pay painters to paint a house may be voided as impossible if the house burns to the ground the day before the painters arrive.

## Quotes

* It is not a lucky word, this same impossible; no good comes of those that have it so often in their mouth.
** Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, A History (1837), Part III, Book III, Chapter X.
* The task was impossible, and mortal human beings accomplished nothing but their own destruction when they attempted the impossible.
** Stephen R. Donaldson, The Power That Preserves (1977), Chapter 14
* Hope not for impossibilities.
** Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Expecting Preferment, Maxim I.
* It is easy to kill someone with a slash of a sword. It is hard to be impossible for others to cut down.
** Yagyū Munenori, as quoted in Behold the Second Horseman (2005), by Joseph Lumpkin, p. 53.
* Achieving impossibilities is the method of Economy of Evolution; ...all directed to a discovery of the Creativeness of the Universe!
** B. B. Stoller, Biologizing the Universe (1983)

### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390
* You cannot make a crab walk straight.
** Aristophanes, Pax, 1083.
* And what's impossible, can't be, And never, never comes to pass.
** George Colman the Younger, Broad Grins, The Maid of the Moor.
* Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
** Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Chapter XII.
* Simul flare sorbereque haud facile Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.
** To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
** Plautus, Mostellaria, Act III. 2. 105.
* Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
** Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, Act II, scene 1.
* Certum est quia impossibile est.
** The fact is certain because it is impossible.
** Tertullian, De Carne Christi, Chapter V, Part II. Called "Tertullian's rule of faith." Also given "Credo quia impossibile." I believe because it is impossible. Same idea in St. Augustine—Confessions, VI. 5. (7). Credo quia absurdum est. An anonymous rendering of the same.
* You cannot make, my Lord, I fear, a velvet purse of a sow's ear.
** John Walcot, Lord B. and his Notions.
# Impostor

An impostor (also spelled imposter) is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often through means of disguise.

## Quotes

* Indeed, right is with us and in us, and there is no one else who says this but that he is a liar and an impostor.
** Muhammad al-Mahdi, Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.53, p. 191
* Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.
** Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay (1949), French title: Précis de décomposition.
* Out, you impostors! Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
** Philip Massinger, Virgin Martyr (1622), Act IV, scene i.
* Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous
** John Milton, Comus (1637), line 762.
* The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying ‘This is mine’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders; how much misery and horror the human race would have been spared if someone had pulled up the stakes and filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: ‘Beware of listening to this impostor. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to everyone and the earth itself belongs to no one!”
** Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, M. Cranston trans., p. 109
* To some extent, of course, we are all impostors. We play roles on the stage of life, presenting a public self that differs from the private self we share with intimates and morphing both selves as circumstances demand. Displaying a facade is part and parcel of the human condition. Indeed, one reason the feeling of being an impostor is so widespread is that society places enormous pressure on people to stifle their real selves.
** Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, The Dangers of Feeling Like a Fake, in: Harvard Business Review, September 2005; Similar quote in De Vries (2011; 16)
# Eric Gill

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typographer, printmaker and engraver.

## Quotes

* That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him. This state can only exist when what a man likes to do is to please himself. ¶ That state is a state of Freedom in which a man does what he likes to do in his working time and in his spare time that which is required of him. This state can only exist when what a man likes to do is to please God.
** Art Nonsense and Other Essays (1929), published by Cassell; quoted in Eric Gill: Man of Flesh and Spirit by Malcolm Yorke, published by Tauris Parke ISBN 1-86064-584-4, p. 49
* Of patience there is this to be said. To be patient is to suffer. By their fruits men know one another, but by their sufferings they are what they are. And suffering is not merely the endurance of physical or mental anguish, but of joy also. A rabbit caught in a trap may be supposed to suffer physical anguish : but it suffers nothing else. The man crucified may be supposed to suffer physical & mental anguish, but he suffers also intense happiness and joy. The industrialist workman is often simply as a rabbit in a trap ; the artist is often as a man nailed to a cross. In patience souls are possessed. No lower view of the matter will suffice.
** An Essay on Typography (1931) Godine, 1993, ISBN 0-87923-950-6, p. 84
# Eric Greitens

Eric Robert Greitens (April 10, 1974 –) is an American politician, author, and former Navy SEAL currently serving as the 56th Governor of Missouri.

## Quotes

* Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.
** Eric Greitens: How To Became A Resilient Leader (March 10, 2015)
* It’s easy to encourage dependency; harder to help people into a life of purpose and dignity. The worst are politicians who smugly talk about caring for the little guy, and then abandon the poorest, most vulnerable of our children to schools that give them little chance to succeed. That’s not just hypocrisy. It’s a tragedy. I became a conservative because I believe that caring for people means more than just spending taxpayer money; it means delivering results. It means respecting and challenging our citizens, telling them what they need to hear, not simply what they want to hear.
** Former Navy SEAL: Why I am no longer a Democrat (July 13, 2015)

## External links

* Official website
# Eric Garcia

Eric Garcia (born 1972) is an American author and screenwriter.

## Quotes
### The Repossession Mambo (2009)

    Nominated for the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. All page numbers from the mass market paperback second edition published by Harper, and retitled Repo Men
* When Melinda filed for divorce, she wrote down only two words as her reason for seeking a dissolution of our two-year marriage: Incontrovertibly self-absorbed. Or is that three words? No matter. The question I have is: Did she mean me or her?
** Chapter 2 (p. 16)
* I signed up for the sake of a uniform. I was not the first, and I will not be the last.
** Chapter 3 (p. 34)
* Like me, he would turn to the one thing that had always sustained him through difficult times, the one piece of hide-saving equipment with which the military way of life had vested us: We could kill people and not care all that much.
** Chapter 4 (p. 55)
* Due to the nature of my profession, I’ve been around death quite a lot, and while I’m not exactly on a first-name basis with the Reaper, we’ve exchanged business cards enough times to give each other a friendly nod when we pass by on the job.
** Chapter 5 (p. 80)
* True loneliness, I learned that day, isn’t the lack of others. It’s the lack of others quickly.
** Chapter 7 (p. 121)
* “We had a good day,” Tig said, slapping me on the back. “Got a whole mess of ’em, didn’t we? Two fifty-eight confirmed.” “Forget the numbers. You woke up this morning, and you’re going to sleep tonight. In my book, that’s a good day.” In recent months, I have adopted Tig’s philosophy.
** Chapter 8 (p. 136)
* I like to think that she was right. And I would have responded, but soon our talk show came on, and we stopped worrying about ourselves and each other and started worrying about celebrities.
** Chapter 12 (p. 187)
* I recognize that the career draws applicants from a certain psychological pool. Garrett came from somewhere near the shallow end.
** Chapter 15 (p. 248)
* I tell the truth, but I don’t need to divulge everything.
** Chapter 19 (p. 292)
* “Son,” he said, “you’re going to work in this life, and you’re going to play. And when the last days come, you’ll look back and find that that’s all there was, and endless stream of days going back to today. But if you can find the thing you should be doing, the thing that makes you you, and if you can make that thing yours, then you’ve beaten the game. I haven’t. Most men don’t. You probably won’t, either, but the point is to try, and to never give up, even when you think it’s over.”
** Chapter 21 (p. 311)