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- “FlowersOn the third of June, at a minute past two,where once was a person, a flower now grew.Five daisies arranged on a large outdoor stagein front of a ten-acre pasture of sage.In a changing room, a lily poses.At the DMV, rows of roses.The world was much crueler an hour ago.I’m glad someone decided to give flowers a go.”
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Bo Burnham,
Egghead; or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone
- “Sermon of the MountsMatthew 5 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN, AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM The Gospels starts in a very beautiful way. The Bible is the book of the books. The meaning of the word “bible” is – the book. It is the most precious and beautiful document that humanity has. These statements are the most beautiful ever made. That is why it is called “The Testament”, because Jesus has become the witness of God. While Buddha’s words are refined and philosophic, Jesus words are poetic, plain and simple. The beginning of the Gospel of Matthew states that 42 generations have passed from Abraham, the founder of Judaism, to Jesus. Jesus is the flowering, the fulfillment, of these 42 generations. The whole history that has preceded Jesus is the fulfillment in him. Jesus is the fruit, the growth, the evolution, of those 42 generations. The path of Jesus is the path of love. Jesus moved among ordinary people, while Buddha – whose path is the path of meditation, intelligence and understanding – moved with sophisticated people, who was already on the spiritual path, Jesus is the culmination of the whole Jewish consciousness, while Buddha was the culmination of the Hindu consciousness and Socrates was the culmination of the Greek consciousness. But the strange things is that the tradition rejected both Jesus, Buddha and Socrates. All the prophets of the Jews that had preceded jesus was preparing the ground for him to come. That is why John the Baptist was saying: “I am nothing compared to the person that I am preparing the way.” But when Jesus came, the etablishment, the religious leaders and the priests, started feeling offended. His presence made the religious leaders look small. Hence Jesus was crucified. And this has always been so, because of the sleep and the stupidity of humanity.”
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Swami Dhyan Giten
- “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.”
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Orson Scott Card,
Speaker for the Dead
- “Every human life is matter of serious concern and no one can downplay the number of deaths unless and until it is factually confirmed. It is our moral duty not to spread fear among the people and escalate panic but to offer them support. Only then will our human qualities show and prevail in such difficult times.”
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Nilantha Ilangamuwa
- “Unless you know yourself, you will not know your creator, knowing yourself will reveal you the meaning of Image of God upon which Adam was created. One who knows thyself knows thy lord thy god.”
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Aiyaz Uddin
- “The Maker is more merciful than men.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- “But then again…perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I’m simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.”
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Ondrelique C. Ouellette
- “Here is the problem, they said to themselves, and there is the solution. That it was drowned in innocent blood was as trivial as the font the reports were printed in. They had disconnected themselves from humanity. Shut off the cell clusters in their brains that made life besides their own sacred. Or valuable. Or worth saving. All it had cost them was every human connection.”
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James S.A. Corey,
Leviathan Wakes
- “Always help the people living on this beautiful earth”
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Muneeb Ambalvi
- “Humanity stands at the very threshold of realizing it is Love itself.”
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Wald Wassermann
- “Human: That’s stupid. Isn’t there grass on both sides?”
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Orson Scott Card
- “Vin paused. “And you have all of these religions memorized?””As much as is possible,” Sazed said. “Their prayers, their beliefs, their mythologies. Many are very similar — break-offs or sects of one another.””Even still, how can you remember all of that?””I have…methods,” Sazed said.”But, what’s the point?”Sazed frowned. “The answer should be obvious, I think. People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so–therefore–are their beliefs.”
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Brandon Sanderson,
The Final Empire
- “Humans will add value where machines cannot. As we encounter more and more artificial intelligence, real intelligence, real empathy, and real common sense will be scarce. The new jobs will be predicated on know how to work with machines, but also on these uniquely human attributes.”
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Satya Nadella,
Hit Refresh
- “A humanistic philosophy starts with the simple agreement that humanity is important. That’s it. It’s not a political agenda, economic plan, or religious affiliation; it’s just the idea that somehow human life is valuable and worth respecting.”
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Kate O’Neill,
Tech Humanist: How You Can Make Technology Better for Business and Better for Humans
- “I’d rather spend my money on helping humanity than helping the super rich. It’s about making the needy our priority as opposed to the greedy.”
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Jeffrey G. Duarte
- “Our bodies are one more way in which the Universe organizes itself. They are windows for consciousness to see through.”
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Thomas Lloyd Qualls,
Painted Oxen
- “One heart, one humanity.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- “We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.”
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Mina Rehman,
Dead Girl Haunting
- “We are all angels”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- “They’re animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”
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Stephen King,
The Long Walk
- “As far as Gu’Rull could determine, the only virtue humans possessed was a talent for starting over, with stern resolve restored in the sudden glow of renewed optimism, in complete disregard of whatever lessons past failures might offer. And he had no choice but to acknowledge the power of that virtue. It is contingent upon collective amnesia, but as everyone knows, stupidity needs no excuse to repeat itself.”
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Steven Erikson,
The Crippled God
- “A society without the authentic and vibrant influence of women is a society that is not fully alive. A culture lacking the vital creativity of women is disadvantaged. Without the bearing of women on world affairs, humanity’s already tenuous grip on peace is made even less sure. When women are barred, whether by law, cultural prejudice, or political ideology, from developing their full potential and offering their unique gifts, it is an injustice to women themselves and to humanity as a whole.”
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Stephen Catanzarite,
Achtung Baby
- “We must submit to the righteous God for our redemption.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- “In order to build a truly wise society devoid of any kind of existential crisis, it is imperative that the individuals foster a healthy integration between cognition and behavior. When cognition and behavior are not in sync, no civilization can progress in peace and harmony. Without this fundamental integration between cognition and behavior, the so-called “civilization” only miserizes itself by always confusing the acquirement of instant gratifications to be peace and happiness.”
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Abhijit Naskar,
Morality Absolute
- “Mechanizm zła będzie działał i podczas apokalipsy. Zrozumiałem to. Ludzie tak samo będą plotkować, schlebiać przełożonym, ratować telewizor i futro z karakułów. Nawet gdyby nastąpił koniec świata, człowiek pozostanie taki, jaki jest teraz. Zawsze.”
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Swietłana Aleksijewicz,
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
- “The notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting.But boy, we were wrong.”
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Michio Kaku,
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
- “Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.”
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Dan Wells,
Fragments
- “How do we rid ourselves of romantic sentiments we know to be illusory without invoking apathy or becoming cold from the rest of this lost race? Answer unknown.”
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Bruce Crown,
The Romantic and The Vile
- “What is sacred to Bokononists?” I asked after a while. “Not even God, as near as I can tell.” “Nothing?” “Just one thing.” I made some guesses. “The ocean? The sun?” “Man,” said Frank. “That’s all. Just man.”
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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