Humanity doesn't exist, there are only human beings, each of them ruled by passions and illusions that conflict with one another and within themselves.
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Kolakowski's reflections, though dazzling, don't inspire great optimism about humanity.
You know that the Web isn't quite done with reinventing humanity when, in the space of a week, a cyclone kills 100, 000 people in Myanmar and an earthquake kills 70, 000 in China.
But "humanity" isn't marching anywhere.
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It was his obvious position of weakness that I'd seen during lunch and it was this frailty that had spoken to my humanity, but it didn't last.
He can't get over the contrast between one side of humanity and the other.
How, some people ask, can someone who doesn't know clearly his or her own sex benefit humanity and society?
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Yet when you consider the herculean challenge of getting it here, even in today's high-tech world, you can't help feeling awestruck by the natural world and humanity's relative insignificance.
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When computer scientists talk about the possible threat to humanity from superintelligent AI, they don't mean the Terminator or Matrix.
He said Mr Ertegun had showed "passion, commitment and humanity... and the money couldn't have come from a better place".
But a bit more humanity, and a lot more honesty, isn't too much to ask.
Since children haven't yet had the chance to accomplish great and lasting things for humanity, all they can give us is the promise of a future.
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