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It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. ↗

— John Yoo

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To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. ↗

— Jane Harrison

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My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day. ↗

— Walter Kohn

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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. ↗

— Jef Raskin

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I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace. ↗

— Thurston Moore

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Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

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