#beings

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. ↗

— George Orwell

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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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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 moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

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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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In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

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