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“The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday”

Humans Might Hours Clear Minutes Design Building Species Extremes Lazy Devices Ingenuity Aversion Human Species Industrious

Book:Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Source: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

“If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand truth of things, every human who has ever lived, who has not committed every minute of their lives toward an effort in finding a cure for mortality, has died as an utter and miserable failure.”

Ifs Life Humans Seems Turns Results Effort Consciousness Minutes Findings Died Absolutes Committed Cures Miserable Mortality

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.”

Ifs Mind Humans Minutes Faults Vain Intimate Human Mind Introducing

Book:Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works

“We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

Humans Lasts Minutes Seconds Cosmic December Calendars Last Minute

Author:Carl Sagan

“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.”

“Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.”

Source: The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition