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“The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.”

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Author:Jim Leach

“The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.”

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Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.”

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Book:I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope

Source: I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope

“The great shift... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the "sciences." This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is... especially important in psychology... and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.”

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Author:Thomas Szasz

“The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.”

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Author:Neil Armstrong

“Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.”

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Author:Chinua Achebe

“I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.”

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Author:Chris Abani