Sentences with phrase «remarkable human achievements»

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Quite as remarkable is his habit of being unimpressed by what was, and is still in some quarters, regarded as a sign of God's favor and the peak of human achievement — the possession of property and riches.

It is a far more remarkable achievement than merely canalizing energy flow through the human species, as by bringing wild lands under pasture, regardless of a declining rate of flow through the ecosystem as a whole.

The achievements of the masters, while remarkable, no longer felt like the byproducts of divine intervention, but of fallibly human stabs at perfection.