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Beings Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the…
- Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two…
- There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease…
- Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good…
- Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
- But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind.…
- As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,…
- What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a…
- If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network…
- We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from…
- Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You…
- The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of… — David Attenborough
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams