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Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely…
— Vernon Howard
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Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of…
— Jules Henry
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The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone…
— Murray Rothbard
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Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups,…
— Robert Kennedy
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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed…
— Francois Jacob
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
— Lewis Thomas
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Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique…
— Lewis Thomas
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Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.
— Kofi Annan
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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure...
— Paul Simon
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our…
— Charles Lyell
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I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.
— Frank Herbert
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[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human…
— Irving Langmuir
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth…
— John Stuart Mill
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I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.
— John Perry Barlow
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It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a…
— James Madison
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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
— Mary Daly
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It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud.…
— Dan Barker
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In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the…
— Rudolf Steiner
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I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.
— Robert Breault
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There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of…
— David Attenborough
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...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were…
— Clarence Darrow
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