HUMANITY IS THE MAIN RELIGION
Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1)
Tags: funny, humanity, nora, warm-bodies, zombie-apocalypse
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Tags: acting, actors, humanity, mankind,stage, theater, world
Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Tags: evil, good, humanity, virtue
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)
Tags: animals, ecology, humanity
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.
Michael Parenti, Against Empire
Tags: capitalism, drugs, humanity,miltary, nature, television
Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.
The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?"
And the answer: "Where was man?
William Styron, Sophie's Choice
Tags: auschwitz, evil, god, humanity,man, understanding
Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.
Rick Yancey, The Last Star (The 5th Wave, #3)
Tags: humanity, life, love, world
We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness, whereas the ambition and quest for happiness of the others consisted of linking their opinions, ideals, and duties, their life and happiness, ever more closely with those of the herd. They, too, strove; they, too showed signs of strength and greatness. But as we saw it, whereas we marked men represented Nature's determination to create something new, individual, and forward-looking, the others lived in the determination to stay the same. For them mankind--which they loved as much as we did--was a fully formed entity that had to be preserved and protected. For us mankind was a distant future toward which we were all journeying, whose aspect no one knew, whose laws weren't written down anywhere.
Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Tags: demian, hermann-hesse, humanity
She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
L.A. Weatherly, Angel (Angel, #1)
Tags: humanity
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
Tags: animals, humanity, humanity-and-society, life
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
Tags: humanity, literature
A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!
Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.
Veronica Roth, Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
Tags: beast, freedom, humanity, life
Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules; only outcomes.
What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts.
What precipitates acts? Belief.
Belief is both prize & battlefield, within the mind & in the mind’s mirror, the world. If we believehumanity is a ladder of tribes, a colosseum of confrontation, exploitation & bestiality, such a humanity is surely brought into being, & history's Horroxes, Boerhaaves & Gooses shall prevail. You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What of it if our consciences itch? Why undermine the dominance of our race, our gunships, our heritage & our legacy? Why fight the “natural” (oh, weaselly word!) order of things?
Why? Because of this:—one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul. For the human species, selfishness is extinction.
Is this the doom written within our nature?
If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe that leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass. I am not deceived. It is the hardest of worlds to make real. Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president’s pen or a vainglorious general’s sword.
A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.
Tags: belief, humanity, life-and-living
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that 'No man is an island,' but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.
Philip K. Dick, The Dark-Haired Girl
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.
Tags: bravery, courage, cowardice,development, humanity, strength,weakness
Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.
Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist.
Tags: belief, belief-quotes, beliefs,believing, disbelief, existence-of-magic,humanity, inspirational-living,inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living,living-life, magic, reality, suffering-of-humanity, sun, sunlight, truth, unreality
Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tags: compass, conscience, human-condition, humanity, suzy-kassem-quotes
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.
John Ortberg Jr., The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
Tags: doubt, fear, friendship, holy-spirit,humanity, mind, peace, spirituality,thinking, worry
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves.Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like
burnt paper.
Tags: humanity, institutions
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.
Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8)
Tags: humanity
نزهتى المفضلة أن أذهب إلى قلب إنسان اّخر أتظلل فى صداقته و أرتوى بكلماته,و سفريتى المحببة أن أبحث عن روح مؤنسة لا عن بلد جديد.
Tags: humanity, people, travel, traveling
You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.
Tags: heroes, humanity, villains
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.
Tags: ann-druyan, carl-sagan, cosmos,fearless, humanity, humility, realitu,science, truth
Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Tags: education, error, humanity, lessons,mistakes
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Tags: humanity, nature, poetry
Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten steel.
I am humanity
He crawled.
I am humanity.
He fell.
I am humanity.
He got up.
Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave, #2)
Tags: humanity, the-infinite-sea
People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.
Patricia Briggs, The Hob's Bargain
What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
Tags: humanity
God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
Tags: cry, crying, cycle, darkness, doom,doomed, god, god-s-creation, hannibal,hell, horror, humanity, insanity, mental-illness, murder, never-ending, prison,psychopath, punishment, serial-killer,serial-killers, sleep, the-silence-of-the-lambs
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
P.G. Wodehouse, Wodehouse On Wodehouse
Tags: humanity, humor, mission, pg-wodehouse, writing
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Tags: compassion, god, humanity,judgement
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.
Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.
The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . .
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Tags: abuse, atrocities, consciousness,crime, denial, dissociation, dissociative,freud, ghosts, graves, healing, horrible,humanity, memory, mind, murder,posttraumatic-stress-disorder, power,psychological-trauma, psychology, ptsd,rape, recovered-memory, recovery,repressed-memory, restoration,sigmund-freud, society, society-denial,survivors, trauma, trauma-therapy, truth,unspeakable, victims, violations, wisdom
That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
Tags: humanity, jack-patton
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Tags: acceptance, background,confidence, cultivation, development,enlightenment, heritage, humanity,humans, life, mankind, original-sin,origins, pride, progress, sentient-beings,shame, truth
It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.
Sōseki Natsume, I am a Cat III
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Tags: humanity, humor, inhumanity,quality
He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Survival in fact is about the connections between things; in Eliot’s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the “other echoes [that] inhabit the garden.” It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.” But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how “our” culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter).
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism
Tags: connections, culture, humanity,imperialism, labels, survival
Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead.
Tags: god, gods, humanism, humanity,hypocrisy, hypocrites, impurities,impurity, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, people, righteous, righteousness,spiritual, spirituality
The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them. For example, when the British invaded India, many Indians accepted to work for the British to kill off Indians who resisted their occupation. So in other words, many Indians were hired to kill other Indians on behalf of the enemy for a paycheck. Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people - and people of other nations - for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.
Tags: army, bad, battlefield, british,brothers, capitalism, chaos, combat,conflict, conscience, corruption,countries, danger, dangerous, deeds,destruction, devil, divided, division,ethics, evil, evil-acts, evil-men, greedy,helpless, hopeless, humanity, hungry,india, indians, mankind, mercenaries,middle-east, middle-east-conflict,military, minority, money, nations, needy,peace, people, political-science, politics,profit, reasoning, seduce, sociology,united, unity, unrest, war, warring, wealth,wiked, world
There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.
David Gemmell, Shield of Thunder (Troy, #2)
Tags: evil, humanity, kings, leadership,treachery
Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their best, they’re acting in accordance with their soul. The ones who have gone bad don’t have bad souls. They’ve just given up on keeping in touch with them.
Jim Butcher, Vignette (The Dresden Files, #5.5)
Tags: harry-dresden, humanity
I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Tags: humanity, justice, truth
Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.
Tags: crime, deceit, gossip, history,honesty, humanity, libel, lies, selfishness,slander, truth
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.
Tags: activist, avenge, bigotry, civil, civil-rights, close-mindedness, compassion,conflicts, consideration, creed, doorway,duty, forgiveness, freedom, goodness,grace, hate, holiness, honor, humanity,hypocrisy, injustice, justice, karma,knowledge, law, love, mercy, morality,noble, open-mindedness, payback,peace, penalty, politics, punishment,responsibility, revenge, righteousness,rights, seek, truth, vengeance, war,wisdom
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th’ empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his followers trod,
And quitting sense call imitating God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule—
Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
Tags: doubt, enlightenment, error,fallibility, humanity, humility, mankind,poetry, reason
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
I am not a machine. For what can a machine know of the smell of wet grass in the morning, or the sound of a crying baby? I am the feeling of the warm sun against my skin; I am the sensation of a cool wave breaking over me. I am the places I have never seen, yet imagine when my eyes are closed. I am the taste of another's breath, the color of her hair.
You mock me for the shortness of my life span, but it is this very fear of dying which breathes life into me. I am the thinker who thinks of thought. I am curiosity, I am reason, I am love, and I am hatred. I am indifference. I am the son of a father, who in turn was a father’s son. I am the reason my mother laughed and the reason my mother cried. I am wonder and I am wondrous. Yes, the world may push your buttons as it passes through your circuitry. But the world does not pass through me. It lingers. I am in it and it is in me. I am the means by which the universe has come to know itself. I am the thing no machine can ever make. I am meaning.
Tags: humanity
and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended
Stephen King, Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)
And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.
Most women go through life looking for love, and looking for someone to treat them like a queen. For some women finding real love seems to be something that will never happen. I believe that finding love is not as hard as people make it seem. The reason that some women can't find real love is because they look for more than just real love. A lot of women know what they need in a relationship, and thats for a man to love that woman with all of his heart, and to treat her real good. Most women have guys in their life or guys that try to get with them that could really love them and treat them real good. Those are usually the guys that get forced into that friend zone or rejected upfront. See those guys could give them what they need, but not what they want. “Wants” can be anything from a woman wanting a man to have certain materialistic things, or she could want him to look a certain way, those are a few examples of the things that some of them want, but they vary depending on the female. What some females don't understand is that none of the things that they want has anything with love or how that person will treat you. You could find a man that looks perfect, has a house and car, he can be a college graduate with a good job, and you could still end up being with a person that doesn't truly love you, and will treat you like shit. What I am trying to say is that the person who could treat you good and really love you could already be in your life, but you could have been blinded by the things you want in a man so you overlooked the person that you were really looking for. And by the way there are men that do the same thing; I just wanted to be clear on that.
Tags: affection, breakup, chemistry,communication, desired-love, emotion,friendship, heartwarming, honesty,human-connections, human-nature,humanism, humanity, imagination,individuality, infidelity, inspirational,inspirational-life, inspirational-love,inspirational-quotes, life, love, pain,passion, reality, relationships, romance,truth, wisdom, wise-words
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.
Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away
You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each square are the words, 'I love you.' And each passer-by, no matter who, gets a square all his or her own. I don't want my square of toilet paper.'
I didn't realize it was toilet paper.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Tags: humanity, love, vonnegut
Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."
[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]
Tags: american-psycho, darkness, fiction,human, humanity, mankind, on-fiction,perspective, worldview
Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.
Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)
Tags: humanity, screams, terror
The dogs brought it all back to, you know, to the human side.
Luis Carlos Montalván, Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
Tags: dogs, guide-dogs, humanity, prison,training
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
Tags: humanity, technology
The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.
Tags: humanity, knowledge, wisdom
To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.
Tags: compassion, conscience, humanity,images, photography, suffering
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.
Tags: education, heart, humanity,humanity-and-science, religion, religion-and-education, science, science-and-education, science-and-religion, wisdom,wisdom-inspirational, wisdom-quotes
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
Tags: cruelty, humanity, mankind, mercy
Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.
Tags: anger, forgiveness, hate,humanism, humanity, inspirational,inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes
Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
Tags: humanity, love, spirituality
IN THE HANDS OF MAN
He who creates a poison, also has the cure.
He who creates a virus, also has the antidote.
He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.
He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.
He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.
He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to covert it to happiness.
He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination.
He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort.
Any problems created by the left hand of man,
Can also be solved with the right,
For he who manifests anything,
Also has the ability to
Destroy it.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tags: antidote, awaken, chaos, comfort,cure, darkness, destroy, evil, fear,fearfulness, good, hands, happiness,hate, human, human-nature, humanity,illumination, kindness, left, light, love,man, manifest, manifestation, mankind,misery, opposites, peace, poison,problems, protection, right, sadness,solace, suffering, transform, virus
Sometimes I want to be human for you.
Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant (The Demon's Lexicon, #2)
Tags: family, humanity, love, nick-ryves
It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.
Vincent A. Gallagher, The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization
Tags: courage, humanity, injustice,suffering
Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
Terry Pratchett, Mort (Death, #1; Discworld, #4)
The human touch is that little snippet of physical affection that brings a bit of comfort, support, and kindness. It doesn’t take much from the one who gives it, but can make a huge difference in the one who receives it.
Tags: comfort, human, human-touch,humanity, humanity-quotes, inspirational,kindess, love, support
ONE BUT MANY
One God, many faces.
One family, many races.
One truth, many paths.
One heart, many complexions.
One light, many reflections.
One world, many imperfections.
ONE.
We are all one,
But many.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tags: complexions, divide, earth, faces,family, global-peace, god, heart,humanity, humans, imperfection, light,love, mankind, many, mind, mirrors, one,parts, paths, race, races, refelections,root-races, sum, temples, tribes, truth,truthism, united, unity, universal,universal-love, we-are-one, world
I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.
Tags: cold, discernment, humanity,judgment, negative, people, warm
I am evolving from being an animal,' he said. 'But it is going very, very slowly. Sometime I try to cry and laugh like other people, just to see if it feels like anything. Yet tears don't come. Laughter doesn't come.
Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tags: activism, activist, authority,bettering-the-world, betterment, change,change-the-world, changing-others,changing-the-world, common,commonalities, communication,evolution, evolve, global-change, globe,goodwill, heart, help-people, helping-others, human, humanitarian, humanity,humankind, language, mankind, mental,money, peace, psychological, saving-the-world, social-change, suzy-kassem, truth,world, world-peace
I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s repulsive, because one’s life consists of people, not things.
The "norm" for humanity is love.
Brutality is an aberration.
We are not sinners by nature.
We learn to be bad.
We are taught to stray from our good paths.
We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.
Jack D. Forbes, Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Imperialism, Exploitation and Terrorism
Tags: anti-civ, civilization, critique,humanity, inspirational, love, oppression
Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.
Tags: accomplishments, activism,activist, animal-rights, causes, charity,direction, environment, focus, focused,goals, helping-others, humanity, life-mission, life-purpose, meaning, others,peace, purpose, service, true-happiness,walk-forward, what-matters, woman,women, world-issues
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Tags: genius, humanity, humour, man,problems
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.
Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name
Tags: humanity, people, relationships
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
Tags: hope, hopelessness, humanity,peter-kreeft
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
Tags: anger, connection, culture,discrimination, envy, humanity, man,prejudicism, race
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?
Tags: desensitized, horror, humanity,terror, war, war-on-terror
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
Tags: humanity, understanding
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
Tags: humanity, insightful, philosophy
Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
Tags: completion, humanity,relationships, togetherness
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.
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Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
Tags: beauty, elven, elven-charm,friendship, human-behavior, human-nature, humanity, humankind, humor,insight, insightful, life, life-and-death,love, meaning, modern-society,modernism, modernity, postmodern,reflection, reflections, reflective,relationships, rogue, romance, self, self-confidence, self-discovery, self-love,sense, sensibility, series, social-change,society, superficial, superficiality, thief,thief-at-night, thief-of-love, thievery,thieves, truth, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series, women, ya-urban-fantasy,young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels,young-adult-series
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.
J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Tags: human-nature, humanity,inspirational, misattributed-plutarch
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch of others who are like them. Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity. If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success, you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares them. People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in their games, and that's it. You're always going to find them in the place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack.
Tags: change, extraordinaire, growth,growth-life, humanity, inspirational,inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes,life, life-and-living, mundane, normalcy,people, strength-of-spirit, wisdom-quotes
People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
Tags: air, humanity, humankind,invention, nature, science, technology,water
It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Tags: humanity, personality
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Tags: ethics, humanism, humanity,imperialism, nuclear-weapons, peace,science, technology, war
So, if this were indeed my Final Hour, these would be my words to you. I would not claim to pass on any secret of life, for there is none, or any wisdom except the passionate plea of caring ... Try to feel, in your heart's core, the reality of others. This is the most painful thing in the world, probably, and the most necessary. In times of personal adversity, know that you are not alone. Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all of your fellow humans everywhere in the world. Know that your commitment is above all to life itself.
May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory
Mizuo Shinonome, Princess Tu Tu Volume 1
Tags: fate, glory, happiness, humanity
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
Tags: human-mind, humanity, pinocchio,real-boy, reality
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America
Tags: humanity, justice, lawyer, reason
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
Tags: humanity
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard, She (She, #1)
Tags: arrogance, foolishness, futility,humanity, intelligence, knowledge,learning, mankind, stupidity, wisdom
Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Tags: humanity, space, star, survive,travel
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)
Tags: being, consciousness, humanity,interconnectedness, interdependency,understanding
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Tags: humanity, ignorance, knowledge,poverty, truth, wicked
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
Tags: humanity, love, scarecrow
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.
Tags: expression, humanity, music, soul
Boast of Quietness
Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors.
The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.
Sure of my life and death, I observe the ambitious and would like to
understand them.
Their day is greedy as a lariat in the air.
Their night is a rest from the rage within steel, quick to attack.
They speak of humanity.
My humanity is in feeling we are all voices of that same poverty.
They speak of homeland.
My homeland is the rhythm of a guitar, a few portraits, an old sword,
the willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls.
Time is living me.
More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.
They are indispensable, singular, worthy of tomorrow.
My name is someone and anyone.
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
Tags: humanity, humor, laughter
I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
Tags: exasperation, humanity, humor,humour, people, sanity
We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh.
Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
Tags: humanity, nature-inspirational
There's something in everyone only they know.
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.
Tags: compassion, dalai-lama, future,humanity, inspirational, peace, truth,wisdom
It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)
Tags: humanity
Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.
Ja A. Jahannes, WordSong Poets
Tags: danger, humanity, ignorance,knowledge-wisdom, multiculturalism,nonviolent-conflict-resolution,philosophy, self-destruction, self-knowledge, shifting-demographics,social-change, sociological-imagination,wisdom-quotes, world-community
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.
Tags: genetics, heredity, humanity,science
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Tags: exponential-growth, humanity, life,science, sustainability, sustainable-development
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.
Tags: humanity, inspirational
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
Tags: altruism, compassion, humanity,love
...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.
Scott Westerfeld, Pretties (Uglies, #2)
Dear Child,
Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don't understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don't care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don't have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors”. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go!
Love,
Your Guardian Angel
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Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done.
Tags: honesty, humanity, intentions, lies,people, truth
One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.
Annie Bryant, Worst Enemies/Best Friends (Beacon Street Girls, #1)
Tags: affirmation, children-s-books,children-s-literature, humanity, life-advice, self-assurance
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
Tags: culture, humanity, idiocy, life
Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.
Roméo Dallaire, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
Tags: humanity, inspirational, justice, war
I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road ended before an almost uninhabited swamp called the Choco Colombiano. Even today there is no road. Perhaps it is time for me to resume my wanderings where I left off as a tropical tramp in the slums of Panama. Perhaps like Ambrose Bierce who disappeared in the desert of Sonora I may also disappear. But after being in all mankind it is hard to come to terms with oblivion - not to see hundreds of millions of Chinese with college diplomas come aboard the locomotive of history - not to know if someone has solved the riddle of the universe that baffled Einstein in his futile efforts to make space, time, gravitation and electromagnetism fall into place in a unified field theory - never to experience democracy replacing plutocracy in the military-industrial complex that rules America - never to witness the day foreseen by Tennyson 'when the war-drums no longer and the battle-flags are furled, in the parliament of man, the federation of the world.'
I may disappear leaving behind me no worldly possessions - just a few old socks and love letters, and my windows overlooking Notre-Dame for all of you to enjoy, and my little rag and bone shop of the heart whose motto is 'Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.' I may disappear leaving no forwarding address, but for all you know I may still be walking among you on my vagabond journey around the world."
Tags: book-stores, history, hospitality,humanity, legacies, mankind, mementos,shakespeare-and-company, travel,walking, wanderings, witnessing
When two brothers are busy fighting, an evil man can easily attack and rob their poor mother. Mankind should always stay united, standing shoulder to shoulder so evil can never cheat and divide them.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tags: attack, brothers, cheat, colonialism,conquer, corruption, divide-and-conquer,divided, division, earth, fighting, global-citizen, globe, humanity, justice,leadership, lie, love, mankind, mother-earth, peace, steal, synergy,togetherness, united, unity, war,weapons-of-mass-destruction, world,world-citizen, world-peace
I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White
The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.
Vanna Bonta, Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
Tags: heart, human-nature, humanity,quote, shortcomings
الامم يعتريها الوجود والفناء، والتاريخ يحدثنا عن أعمار الأمم، فمنها من بقي عشرات السنين ثم اندثر وباد، فمثلا اليونان امتد عمرها قرابة 500 عام ثم فقدت وجودها الثقافي فابتلعتها ثقافات أخرى، أما الثقافة الإسلامية فقد مضى عليها قرابة 15 قرناً وما زالت قائمة شامخة، وهي التحدي الوحيد لزعماء الغرب، فهي كالشجرة الطيبة أصلها ثابت وجذورها ضاربة في أعماق الأرض، إن الشعوب لا تُفنى جسديا ومادياً ولكنها تفنى ثقافياً.
Tags: culture, history, humanity, التاريخ,الثقافة
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.
Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2)
We aren't human."
"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us
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