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Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.
Atul Gawande
People
Human Being
Depend
Sense
Other
Others
Way
More
Trivial
Simply
Like
Obvious
Exist
Normal
Human
Just
Being
Interaction
Human Beings
Social
Requires
Beings
Company
Each
Elemental
Creatures
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Love
Best
Family
Hate
Rage
Too
Finest
Shame
Generosity
Like
Also
Learn
Another
Nasty
Often
Human
Where
Human Beings
Teaches
Beings
Things
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
Bram Stoker
Experience
People
Unhappy
Past
Own
Enough
Our
Evidence
Vampires
Some
Proof
Give
Records
Had
Exist
Us
Sane
Teachings
Beings
Even
Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
Brit Marling
Complicated
Messy
Human
Human Beings
Flawed
Beings
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Carrot Top
Success
Nature
Hate
People
Our
Like
Human
Human Beings
Successful
Successful People
Beings
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire
Respect
Three
Poet
Soldier
Worthy
Only
Priest
Know
Exist
Create
Beings
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones
Buy
You
Sunshine
Light
Try
Will
Broke
Bucket
Go
Line
Up
Selling
Human
Human Beings
Miles
Beings
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Claude McKay
Plants
Development
Thwarted
Like
Overshadowed
Human
Nations
Human Beings
Beings
Grow
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
Daisaku Ikeda
War
Together
Conflict
Inevitable
Live
Human
Human Beings
Beings
When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
Deepak Chopra
Fight
Become
Conserve
Resource
Resources
Possession
Diminishing
Left
Scrap
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Suddenly
Cooperate
Last
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
Dennis Prager
Music
Will
Some
Come
React
Surely
Up
Human
Human Beings
Explanation
Reason
Beings
Why
I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Dick Van Patten
Love
Loyalty
People
Treat
Seen
Animals
Affection
Though
Kind
Find
Well
Still
Very
Human
Just
Human Beings
Loving
Them
Hard
Beings
Even
Treated
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Donald Knuth
Attitude
Change
Construction
Programs
Our
Rather
Computer
Main
Instead
Concentrate
Traditional
Task
Human
Want
Human Beings
Explaining
Us
Beings
Let Us
Imagining
The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.
Donella Meadows
Kind
Would
Objects
Support
Fellow
Contempt
Fellow Human Beings
Always
Human
Refused
Human Beings
Mean
Them
Engaging
Beings
Need
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
Emma Thompson
Wish
Say
Kinder
Like
Human
Human Beings
Unfortunate
Really
Who
Beings
Suffered
In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.
Fatema Mernissi
Equality
Strict
Sex
Leader
Islam
Politicians
Virtue
Everything
Has-Been
Able
Almost
Thus
Supporters
Between
Almost Everything
Principle
Islamic
Renounce
Been
His
Human
Human Beings
Regardless
Central
Manipulate
Race
Far
Convince
Beings
Fundamentalist
Societies
Creed
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Association
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Good
Humane
Benefit
Several
Respects
Good Reason
General
More
General Good
Could
Suppose
Instruction
Gods
Human
Human Beings
Us
Reason
Beings
Humans
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein
Alone
Others
Like
Human
Want
Human Beings
After
Beings
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova
Nature
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Balance
Wait
Power
Met
Recovered
Seldom
Over
Until
Himself
His
Truly
Who
Beings
Even
Sufficient
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
H. Rap Brown
Revolution
Correct
Out
Institutions
Decadent
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Set
The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.
Hasan M. Elahi
God
Our
Concept
Camera
Surveillance
Ingrained
Original
Beings
I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.
Hugo Chavez
Injustice
Exploitation
Immorality
Inequality
Been
Years
Revolt
Human
Human Beings
Against
Beings
That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
Jack Antonoff
Incredible
About
Going
Human
Human Beings
Choice
Beings
Keep
Keep Going
Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.
Jack Kornfield
Rain
Conflict
Sky
Car
Sense
Other
Trees
Birds
Late
Our
Earth
Circling
Out
Arc
Ripe
Perfect
Color
Blessings
Without
Fresh
Pass
Tangerine
Shining
Times
Taste
Shops
Bread
Afternoon
Crashing
Warm
Flight
Beings
Among
Million
Million Times
Harm
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
James Randi
Problem
Animals
Make
Always
Been
Human
Human Beings
The Problem With
Experiments
Whether
Decisions
Beings
Treatment
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