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  1. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.
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  2. Charles Darwin _ The Descent of Man

    For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs-as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.
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  3. Karen Traviss _ Halo: The Thursday War

    I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.
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  4. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.
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  5. Max Allan Collins _ Jump Cut

    Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.
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  6. Markus Zusak

    First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try
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  7. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what couldI tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.None of those things, however, came out of my mouth.All I was able to do was turn to Liesel Meminger and tell her the only truth I truly know. I said it to the book thief and I say it now to you.I am haunted by humans.
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  8. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
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  9. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
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  10. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be."
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  11. James Baldwin _ Notes of a Native Son

    I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all."
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  12. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.
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