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Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Acknowledge Beings Cannot Comprehend Fact Human Human Beings Large Numbers Small Us Useful Very Would

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So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

~Daniel Keys Moran

Topics: Actual Beings Far Human Human Beings Important Live More Our Perceptions Reality Than Very Where World

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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

~Daniel Webster

Topics: Beings Civilized Earth Great Holds Interest Justice Man Nations Sir Together Which

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Human beings all mimic each other.

~Daphne Guinness

Topics: Beings Each Human Human Beings Mimic Other

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I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!'

~Daron Malakian

Topics: Beings Face Frustrated Guy Happy Human Human Beings Just People Say Smack Up Very Wake Wake Up Wants Who

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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

~Dave Barry

Topics: Age Background Beings Believe Drivers Ethnic Gender Human Human Beings One Thing Regardless Religion The One Thing Thing Unites

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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

~Dave Davies

Topics: Based Became Beings Control Controlling Human Human Beings Just Money More One Thing Politics Religion Same Same Thing Then Thing Think Too Want Weakness Wrong I Think

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It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

~David Almond

Topics: Always Been Beings Case Children Different Different Things Economic Educators Good Imaginative Just Politicians Than Things Units Want

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I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Been Beings Chance Diseases Else Fear Foul Given Had Half Human Human Beings Leap Like Loaded Much No Fear Out Place Problem Rats Run Sitting The Problem With Them While Would

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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

~David Attenborough

Topics: About Accuse Being Beings Doing Few Human Human Beings Little Million Million Years Nothing Size Species Survived Unchanged Very Which Years You

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