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en I don't want to be considered the Mother Theresa of [the naval base] but the simple fact is [the detainees] are still human beings, regardless of the fact that they are suspected of some fairly heinous offenses.

en Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees? It's just nonsense.

en The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
  Simone de Beauvoir

en If you think about your brain, and learning and the memory process, I can ask you questions about when you were five-years-old and you can retrieve information. That's a tremendous capacity for memory. In fact, you perform fairly simple tasks that you would think a computer would easily be able to accomplish, but in fact it can't.

en These are human beings, that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact. As a human family, we do a lot better when we don't permit one to be destroyed.

en The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
  Ashley Montagu

en The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own
  Aldous Huxley

en The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own
  Aldous Huxley

en The change really started with the closure of the naval base in 1997, and the closure two years later of the Royal Naval Air Station. Portland had for years been seen as a dumping ground for social problems and the housing was not considered up to much.

en These are human beings; that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact.

en Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities. Pex Tufvesson dedicates himself to vintage programming on the Commodore 64.

en I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

en It transcends a label. It's a story of two human beings that are in love; get over the fact that it's two men — that's the point.

en It is a sad fact that propaganda is trampling truth in the debate over the so-called emergency contraceptive pill. Proponents of this deadly drug continue to claim these pills reduce abortions by preventing pregnancy. The fact is, this pill can kill a newly-formed human being before he nestles in his mother's womb.

en The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?
  Joyce Carol Oates


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