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  • I have more respect for Al-Qaida, you are such pathetic excuses for human-beings! anybody but clinton

    Poll shows both Clinton and Obama beating McCain 2008

  • And unlike the Pistons, who are stacked with more villains than a Batman sequel, the Spurs have quality players and more importantly quality human-beings.

    Matthew Yglesias » Dynasty Time 2007

  • For example, how might an original designer have determined which starting conditions would have resulted in producing human-beings?

    Ancestral Expression Patterns 2007

  • For example, how might an original designer have determined which starting conditions would have resulted in producing human-beings?

    Ancestral Expression Patterns 2007

  • I have come to the conviction that the there really is no way to break through the stranglehold of propaganda that has seemingly infected the minds of masses of people that otherwise function as thinking human-beings.

    McCain VP: Sarah Palin, AK Gov. Help Build a profile on her 2008

  • Despite our profound inequalities and differences we are, in the end, a planet of interdependence, a collection of diverse-but ultimately human-beings with the similar fears, anxieties, aspirations and dreams.

    Kavita N. Ramdas: On Giving 2008

  • The reason there should be no death penalty is because, as imperfect human-beings, we are capable of making mistakes in our judgment, and in what we did or did not witness, as wellas being willing to perjure ourselves on behalf of our loveones, or friends, or even out of fear.

    Details of Execution Day 2008

  • The voice of Inkosi Luthuli, which still speaks to us today, tells us that part of the challenge of our democratic South Africa is to ensure that our society rids itself of attitudes and actions that continue to degrade and abuse women, treat them as if they are not only inferior to men but are also not full human-beings.

    Address at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli's passing away 2007

  • Civility depends on respect for other human-beings.

    Bill Gray Presentation « Climate Audit 2006

  • Civility depends on respect for other human-beings.

    Bill Gray Presentation « Climate Audit 2006

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