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Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. ”
If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves. ”
What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say. ”
Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support. ”
Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk. ”
We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences. ”
I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world. ”
Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity. ”
When people criticize the computer generation, the high tech generation, and say they neglect the body - well, just walk through a college campus, and you'll see the healthiest, most physically conscious and alert group of human beings I've ever met. So they're not nerds at all. ”
When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors. ”