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“But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.”

Humans Stories Values Fall Human Beings Our Lives Despair Evidence Patterns Contrary Setting Settings Depressing Chaotic

Book:A Short History Of Myth

Source: A Short History Of Myth

“Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence showing that a wide variety of independent conditions all reached optimality during the identical narrow epoch when human beings appeared on the cosmic and terrestrial scene testifies of supernatural design and purpose rather than mere coincidence.”

Humans Purpose Humanity Human Beings Support Conditions Design Civilization Scene Evidence Independent Mere Wide Variety Cosmic Coincidence Identical Variables Epoch

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.”

Needs Humans Stills Earth Spirit Justice Freedom Human Beings Liberty Our Lives Materials Comfort Demand Evidence Sake Worthy Collectives Being Human Bondage Indivisible Expediency

Author:Han Suyin

“There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little or no evidence, and worse still and far more important, nothing to discourage him from the habit of starting with a generalization and ending up with the individual, instead of the other way round.”

Way Humans Littles Stills Important Individual Human Beings Habit Evidence Rounds Starting Average Discouraging Generalization

Book:Earth and High Heaven

Source: Earth and High Heaven

“I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.”

People Knows World Humans Reality Human Beings Forget Events Danger Evidence Versions Constructs

Author:Dale Spender

“The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.”

World Way Humans Facts Belief Human Beings Common Evidence Argument Secure Willingness Openness Permit

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it remains to be seen whether these decisions lead to predictable errors that create systematic mispricings upon which rational investors can readily and economically capitalize.”

Humans Human Beings Decision Theory Evidence Remains Errors Investing Financial Rational Investors Irrational Apostles Predictable Systematic

Author:John C. Bogle