#human being

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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It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. ↗

— William Glasser

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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

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I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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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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