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> [Human beings are just gene machines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/human-beings-are-just-gene-machines/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/we-consider-that-the-lives-of-all-beings-are-just-as-precious-as-our/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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> [God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/god-does-not-love-some-ideal-person-but-rather-human-beings-just-as/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [I don't think it's fair for people to put fellow beings down just because they're only known for their looks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coco-rocha/i-don-t-think-it-s-fair-for-people-to-put-fellow-beings-down-just/)

[Coco Rocha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/coco-rocha/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/460/coco-rocha-3974_beings_i-don-t-think-it-s-fair-for-people-to-pu_756009.png)

> [Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/human-beings-are-just-good-enough-to-make-democracy-possible-just-bad/)

[Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/)

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> [“Whether people are beautiful and friendly or unattractive and disruptive, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself. Like oneself, they want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama-xiv/whether-people-are-beautiful-and-friendly-or-unattractive-and/)

[Dalai Lama XIV](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama-xiv/)

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> [We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/we-were-the-two-of-us-still-fragmentary-beings-just-beginning-to/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/haruki-murakami-21_presence_we-were-the-two-of-us-still-fragmentary_149444.jpg)

> [When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/when-i-say-that-human-beings-are-just-gene-machines-one-shouldn-t-put/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nell-zink/human-beings-are-just-way-more-complex-than-they-d-like-to-be-they/)

[Nell Zink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nell-zink/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f17/nell-zink-26443_complexes_human-beings-are-just-way-more-complex-t_1821072.jpg)

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