#beings

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult. ↗

— Renee Fleming

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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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The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

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There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man. ↗

— Raul Julia

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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