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The Humans
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No wonder they were a species of primitives. By the time they have read enough books to actually reach a state of knowledge where they can do anything with it, they are dead. They need to sit down and look at each word consecutively.
“Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“Indeed, war and money seemed to be so popular on the news, it should more accurately have been titled The War and Money Show.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“A cow is an Earth-dwelling animal, a domesticated and multipurpose ungulate, which humans treat as a one-stop shop for food, liquid refreshment, fertilizer, and designer footwear.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“As well as religion, human history is full of depressing things like colonisation, disease, racism, sexism, homophobia, class snobbery, environmental destruction, slavery, totalitarianism, military dictatorships, inventions of things which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon), the victimisation of clever people, the worshipping of idiotic people, boredom, despair, periodic collapses, and catastrophes within the psychic landscape.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
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