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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.
Taslima Nasrin
I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
Maya Angelou
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion
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Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
Paul Verhoeven
I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.
Boris Johnson
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I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
Alvin Ailey
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
Edmund Leach
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We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.
Diane Ackerman
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I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
Reeve Carney
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Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.


Robert Wilson Lynd
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
Kathryn Harrison
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High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.


Thomas Kinkade
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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
Bharati Mukherjee
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Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
Stanislav Grof
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
John Polkinghorne
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.


Karen Armstrong
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No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
Gene Roddenberry
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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
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.
Alexis Arguello
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