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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic… — Aberjhani
Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the… — Kofi Annan
I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings. — Albert Einstein
Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings.… — Irene Nemirovsky
I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge… — Andrew McMahon
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion. — Adam Pascal
Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is… — Philip Kapleau
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. — John C. Bogle
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more… — Alan Watts
Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but… — Aldous Huxley
One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have… — Albert Einstein
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere,… — Swami Vivekananda
Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking,… — Stephen Hawking
There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love that you know,… — Rajneesh
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. — Nelson Mandela
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men. — Simone de Beauvoir
Human beings are curious by nature. — Aristotle
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from… — Edith Hamilton
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. — Robert M. Hutchins
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to… — Malcolm X
Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside… — William Ruckelshaus

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