“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviours, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.” — Margaret Mead, Male and Female
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“The difficulty is to persuade the human race to acquiesce in its own survival.” — Bertrand Russell, “The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1946-10-01)
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“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” — Herman Melville, Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs
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“We’re all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.” — Anil Seth, Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
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“There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.” — Isaac Asimov, I, Asimov: A Memoir
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“For a very short 40,000 years or so, we’ve been vaguely human. So be patient with humanity, we’ve only just started being people and we’re not very good at it yet.” — Paul Gilding, “On Leading a Useful Life” Commencement speech, University of Technology Sydney (2006-09-25)
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