#human beings

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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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Human beings have always been mythmakers. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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

— David Brin

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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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 all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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