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“Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.”

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Author:Hugh Howey

“The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.”

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Author:Huineng

“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.”

Source: Gravity and Grace

“When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.”

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Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.”

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Book:The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw

Source: The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw

“According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.”

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Author:Reb Anderson

“Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.”

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Author:Roxane Gay

“The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.”

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Author:Rachel Held Evans

“There is a fundamental difference between Jesus and Muhammad and their teachings. When the Jews brought a prostitute to Christ and asked him what to do with her because the law says stone her, Jesus said, let the one who has not committed any sin throw the first stone. This is a great teaching. To be happy as human beings, we don't need lots of laws. All we need are few good teachings and this is one of them.”

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Author:Ali Sina

“Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.”

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Author:Zoltan Istvan

“[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.”

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Author:Kesha Rogers