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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. ↗

— Graham Nash

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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time. ↗

— Gale Norton

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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

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I know that human beings are capable of anything. ↗

— Ben Okri

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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. ↗

— Ben Okri

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We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

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Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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