#human

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate. ↗

— Jane Rule

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

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