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"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity."
"Cellphone and other wireless radiation should be classified as a "probable human carcinogen.""
"God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away."
"To become a leader, you must first become a human being"
"It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took."
"A human being is a naturally political [animal]."
"Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically."
"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future."
"I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships."
"Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything."
"Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'"
"I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me."
"Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason."
"It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being."
"The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings."
"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."
"We must die to become true human beings."
"A human being has no natural rights of any nature."
"No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption."
"I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am."
