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• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  Vernor Vinge

  Problem, Passing, Stage

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• The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Humanity, Suffering

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• For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Country, Stars, Space

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• And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

  Albert Maltz

  Inspiring, Men, Literature

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  Memories, War, Fate

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• Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species.

  Dennis Banks

  Believe, Native American, People

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• The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

  Rebecca Adamson

  God, Wisdom, Spirituality

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• Man is an ape with possibilities.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Men, Humanity, Apes

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• Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Men, Humanity

  Thomas Carlyle (2009). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

  Georges Bernanos

  Laughter, Book, Thinking

  Georges Bernanos, Pamela Morris (1975). “The diary of a country priest”

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• The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

  Rebecca Adamson

  God, Wisdom, Children

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• The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

  Dan Simmons

  Cancer, Order, Roles

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1086, Spectra

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• Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Eras, Instinct, Mets

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.310, Penguin

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• With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Life, Nature, Paganism

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• Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

  Joel Garreau

  Effort, Evolution, Constant

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.161, Broadway Books

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• The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Frustration, Humanity

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• Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

  William Boyd

  Rejection, Tolerate

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

  Robert Jordan

  Struggle, Choices, Made

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.362, Tor Books

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• A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

  Maria Montessori

  Responsibility, Survival, Abandoned

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• Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Sleep, Buddhism

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• Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

  Albert Einstein

  World Government, Desire, Environment

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• Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

  Annie Lennox

  Compassion, Empathy, Brutality

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• Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

  Anton Chekhov

  History, Battle, Conflict

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• Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Block, Animal, Long

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• Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

  Jean Paul

  Faults, Chiefs, Humans

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