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Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted.
Kirsten Powers / Pundit
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Companies
Predatory
Trusted
Sentient
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Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
Max Heindel / Astrologer
Joy
Pain
Pleasure
Sorrow
Life Pain Joy
Sentient
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun / Historian
Music
Emotion
Purpose
Beings
Designed
Emotions
Hopes
Intended
Purposes
Sentient
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I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
Nicolas Cage / Actor
Animal
Bird
Fascination
Insects
Reptiles
Whales
Animals
Fish
Sentient
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
Paul Di Filippo / Writer
Fantasy
Myth
Sentient
Staple
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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
Daniel H. Wilson / Author
War
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Human Species
Species
Thinking
Sentient
Wage
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From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Doubt
Individual
Accessible
Doubts
Graham
Individuals
Learnt
Sentient
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Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.
Alex Garland / Novelist
Ai
Sentient
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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
Michael Morpurgo / Author
Funny
Pet
Animal
Care
Children
Duty
Entertaining
Intelligent
Animals
Them
Owe
Perceptive
Sentient
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
Frances Wright / Writer
Honest
Limits
Rights
Touch
Limit
Sentient
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It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.
Cedric Bixler-Zavala /
Machinery
Sentient
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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
Daniel Dennett / Philosopher
Alone
Children
Desert
Empathy
Interaction
Islands
Lacking
Raised
Social
Child
Desert Island
Island
Sentient
Thus
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Gary Hamel / Manager
Accidents
Contemplating
Errors
Human Beings
Transcription
Beings
Countless
Elite
Genetic
Sentient
Sum
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Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.
Michael Shermer / Writer
Evolution
Instinct
Mammals
Want
Flourish
Reproduce
Sentient
Survive
To Survive
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The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
Grace Slick / Singer-Songwriter
Animal
Meat
Moral
Animals
Beings
Main
Sentient
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I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
Jane Goodall / Primatologist
Respect
Animal
Given
Pushing
Responsibility
Animals
Sentient
Treat
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Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
Nellie Mckay / Singer-Songwriter
Cerebral
Communicate
Desire
Needs
Subconscious
Accessible
Desires
Medium
Sentient
Shared
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To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.
Mary Oliver / Poet
Truth
Example
Tigers
Believe Me I Believe
Truth Believe I Believe
Truth Believe Me
Catch
For Example
Idly
Sentient
Stone
Tell
Trees
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Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.
Martha Beck / Author
Ancient
Dna
Programming
Expectation
Genetic
Hopes
Loved One
Sentient
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
Florida Scott-Maxwell / Playwright
Balance
Bravery
Crucial
Gay
Old Age
Human Being
Remain
Sentient
Task
Well Enough
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There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
Gary L. Francione / Professor
Animal
Distinction
Fur
Leather
Materials
Moral
Suffering And Death
Animals
Beings
Result
Sentient
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I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Home
Chickens
Country
Husband
Occasional
Son
Turkeys
Work Home Man
Work Man Me
Days
Except
Sentient
Ups
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What I love about 'Big Hero 6', with Baymax himself - this sentient creature who's actually a learning robot - with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.
Roy Conli / Film Producer
Gullible
Hero
Issues
Naive
Becomes
Creature
Himself
Robot
Sentient
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On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back.
Gore Verbinski / Film Director
Animation
Fabricate
Nuance
Things Happen
Unexpected
Tremendous
Sentient
Tremendous Amount
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My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.
Sugata Mitra / Professor
Communicate
Creator
Humanity
In The End
Invent
Sentient
Symbiotic
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Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.
Jason Silva / Television Personality
Blind
Entropy
Natural Selection
Seizing
Beings
Evolutionary
Longer
Sentient
Victims
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As long as people are using the Internet, people are going to do stupid stuff, and people are going to do bad stuff. And by the time that robots are sentient, they're going to enslave us anyway, so it won't matter.
Alexis Ohanian / Internet Entrepreneur
Bad Stuff
Robots
Time Stupid Long
Anyway
By The Time
Enslave
Sentient
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I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Animal
Animal Lover
Ends
Independent
Involved
Movement
Treated
Became
Beings
Came
Certainly
Lover
Fond
Means
Persuaded
Sentient
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My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.
Frank Rich / Essayist
Lifetime
Native
Odd
Particular
Presidential
Upbringing
Vantage Point
Duck
Product
Sentient
Vantage
Vividly
Whose
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
A. S. Byatt / Novelist
Irritated
Long Time
Mechanism
Time Man Long
Automatic
Being A Man
Bodily
Man-Made
Instinctively
Processes
Repelled
Scientific
Sentient
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With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.
Amy Gerstler / Poet
Contemporary
Surgery
Approximately
Genuinely
Immediate
Sentient
Undergoing
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Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
Paul Davies / Physicist
Cosmic
Doorstep
Galaxy
Life Is
May
Phenomenon
Universe
Wonder
Somewhere
Beings
Confident
Life Is A
Second
Sentient
Truly
Wondering
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Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
Gary L. Francione / Professor
Age
Ageism
Community
Deny
Humans
Membership
Moral
Orientation
Protection
Race
Racism
Reason
Sex
Sexism
Species
Basic
Sexual
Reject
Sentient
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It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.
Dimitar Sasselov / Astronomer
Travel
Columbus
Commerce
Solar System
Physically
Forms
Centuries
Conduct
Exchange
Fast
Feasible
Life Forms
Meet
Outside
Sentient
Solar
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Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.
Kat Von D / Tattoo Artist
Capacity
Compassion
Eating
Environment
Programming
Taught
Life Love Reality
Physically
Animals
Beings
Choice
Cultural
Emotionally
Helps
Saves
Sentient
To Love
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Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.
Patrick Rothfuss / Writer
Dinosaurs
Effects
Fantasy
Genre
Mean
Props
Reading
Robots
Special Effects
Vampire
Writing
Ahead
Anyone Else
Lesbian
Options
Sentient
Throw
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There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck /
Equality
Peace
Brotherhood
Divergent
Earth
Equal
Prosperity
Peace World People
Accept
Aims
Alike
Also
Among
Beings
Cannot
State
Enduring
Players
In The End
Other
Planet
Role
Sentient
Sharing
Stake
Whom
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