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When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

~Alan Keyes

Topics: Beings Cannot Children Control Culture Educational Effect Entertainment Freedom Give Human Human Beings Impression Media Our Passions Telling Them Through Trusted

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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: About Air Arrangement Beings Breathe Central Consciousness Existence Fact Gives In Fact Intelligent Interesting Know Like May Me Most Neurons Never Our Particular Passage Problem Rise Science Time

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Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Alone Beings Human Human Beings Long Universe Whether Wondered

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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Able Act Being Beings Changing Delivered Liberated Preaching Saves Sermons Showing Stop Them

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One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Bad Beings Characters Conversations Dangers Drive Explaining Fiction How Human Human Beings Interact Life Like Never Part Particularly Real Real Life Really Scenes Science Science Fiction Something Start Those Turn Way Where Works You

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In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.

~Albert Bandura

Topics: Adversaries Any Beings Demonic Final Forms Humanity Moral Sense Shared Treat

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: Action Beings Cannot Find Human Human Beings Make Must Will

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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: Beings Cannot Despair Human Human Beings Humanity Ourselves Since We Cannot

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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Beings Ethics Evolution First First Step Human Human Beings Other Sense Solidarity Step

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Almost Beings Capacity Granted Human Human Beings Infinite Most Taking Taking Things For Granted Things

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