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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: About Actually Always Appearance Been Beings Dislike Dread Even Familiar First Fools Generally Hence Human Human Beings Innovators Madmen Majority Notions Persecuted Vast Vast Majority Which

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: About Beings Condemned Conventions Fact Human Human Beings Individual Instruments Monstrous Most Own Politics Quarrels Shocking Victims War

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Behavior Beings Human Human Beings Inverse Involved Moral Number Quality Ratio Varies

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Ambition Behaving Beings Belief Death Doomed Every Frustration Hands Hell Human Human Beings Knowledge Majority More Never Rumor Skeleton Than Though Were

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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Another Beings Either Hang Human Human Beings Like Really Shown Themselves Were

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I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Beings Brothers Brothers And Sisters Defined Families Family Human Human Beings Kind Matter Our Parents Relationships Sisters Think Through I Think

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There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'

~Alek Wek

Topics: Beings Done Human Human Beings Look Other Out People Right Say Should Something Speak Up Who Wrong

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I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Because Beings Children Cross Done Dying Feel Find Help Human Human Beings Just Like Me More Must Ocean Refugees Safety See Something Them Trying You I Feel

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I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Any Beings Believe Beyond Bigger Civil Civil War Each Educate Gone Human Human Beings Important Issues Kids Look Need Other Out Power Refugees Should Something Think Through Us War Whether Working You I Believe

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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Beings Central Even Human Human Beings Important Long Many Prolongs Situations Spiritual Well-Being Yield

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