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Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal.

~Alexis Carrel

Topics: Abnormal Against Asylum Beings Development Gangsters Gigantic Harmful Insane Lunatics Maintain Normal Now Preserve Prevent Prisons Protect Public Required Sums Useless Why

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Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.

~Alexis Carrel

Topics: Beings Better Business Chicago Deal Dogs Doing Excellent Great Great Deal Hate Human Human Beings Instead Like Little Little Money Make Medical Money Operate Operations Perhaps Practice Scientific Standpoint Stay Surgical Than Will Work Would

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I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

~Alfonso Cuaron

Topics: Beings Believe Born Design First Given Human Human Beings Journey Later My Journey Really Thankful I Believe I Believe That

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When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.

~Ali Smith

Topics: About After Art Before Beings Come Connected Encounter Exist Fixed Know Lived Meet Moment Opens Past People Present Rather Same Something Time Us Who Will Work

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When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Because Beings Book Exciting Fall Happening Human Human Beings Interesting Language Love Something Us Way Works You I Love

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The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

~Ali Smith

Topics: About Ask Beings Contradictory Human Human Beings Massively More Multiple One Thing Quickly Selves Than Thing Us World

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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

~Alice Walker

Topics: Also Anything Behind Beings Creatures Did Emotional Entirely Eyes Field Get He Hiding How Interest Interested More More Than Anything Other People Read Really Special Special Interest Story Tend Than Them Thinking Those Who

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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Beings Break Confused Cruelty Dictatorship Enslavement Free Greed Human Human Beings Humanity Ignorant Like Longer May Our Over Spreads Superior Unable Well Will World

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It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

~Alice Walker

Topics: American Because Beings Brought Cannot Different Feel Just Just Because Limiting Other People Think Tragedy Up Very Way

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As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

~Alicia Silverstone

Topics: Beings Cynical Human Human Beings

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