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The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
Adam Hamilton
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.


A. S. Byatt
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Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
Bill Maher
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.


Jesse Owens
Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.
William T. Vollmann
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
William Godwin
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I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.


Tiger Woods
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
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We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.


Justin Sane
When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.
Lee Smolin
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
David Attenborough
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.


Whittaker Chambers
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High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.


Thomas Kinkade
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It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
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When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.
Paul Hawken
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Ashley Montagu
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.


Karen Armstrong
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
Rachel Cusk