"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"

Being, Killing, Machines, Nothing

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"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"

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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

Jacques Barzun, American Educator

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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

John Sexton, American Educator

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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."

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"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."

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"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."

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"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."

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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."

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"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."

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"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."

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