"Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes."
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"To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity."
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"The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency."
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"What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference."
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"What better book can there be than the book of humanity."
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"Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist."
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"If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible"
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"I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people."
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"Violence diminishes our humanity."
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"Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity."
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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"Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream."
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"Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development."
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"The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man."
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"It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside."
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"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."
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"The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization."
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"One cat just leads to another."
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"Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions."
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"The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity."
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