#beings

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from. ↗

— David Brin

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No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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