Humans Quotes
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I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean circulation pattern. I see this as a major cause of climate change... . These are natural processes. We shouldn't blame them on humans and CO2.
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To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.
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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
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A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.
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Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.
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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
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Stanford ecologist Deborah Gordon and computer scientist Balaji Prabhakar discovered that ants appear to have developed flow control algorithms millions of years before humans did.
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Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.
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Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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What is a human-like droid that operates from a place of free will and has been designed to have a soul? That's fascinating stuff that you just can't quite comprehend quickly. It's not like playing a fireman with a wife and kid. You can gauge where that's going to go and what's going to happen, and you can talk to other people who have done it.
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Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.
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There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
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One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.
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It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
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It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.
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Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical - all with a pretense of exaggerated kindness and human feeling which deceives millions of gullible persons.
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When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
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There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?
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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
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Why does gender appear in this primal scene of humans meeting their evolutionary successors, intelligent machines? What do gendered bodies have to do with the erasure of embodiment and the subsequent merging of machine and human intelligence in the figure of the cyborg?
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
