Humans Quotes
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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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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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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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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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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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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I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
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Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.
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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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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.
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I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
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How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?
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In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
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...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.
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We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.
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In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.
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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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I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.
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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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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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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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I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.
