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- noun Plural form of
being .
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"As many beings as there are in the universe of beings, comprehended under the term" beings "— egg-born, born from a womb, moisture-born, or miraculously born; with or without form; with perception, without perception, and with neither perception nor nonperception — as far as any conceivable form of beings is conceived: all these I must lead to Nirvana, into that Realm of Nirvana which leaves nothing behind"
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007
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Yes, exactly, in our social media-driven culture, the existential dilemma faced by us modern-day human beings is something altogether far more complex: To Like or not to Like?
Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: I Tweet Therefor I am: Love in the Age of Homo SM-piens. Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2010
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Heroes emerge as autochthonous beings from the nation/state, rising up to defend it in its time of need.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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Heroes emerge as autochthonous beings from the nation/state, rising up to defend it in its time of need.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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Heroes emerge as autochthonous beings from the nation/state, rising up to defend it in its time of need.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite : Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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Does this mean that the role for some beings is to suffer?
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For better than half the worlds population that had been mired in the muck of socialism for half a century and several millennium of feudal slavery before that, to suddenly break free and to begin to realize some of their innate potentials as human beings is truly one of the great events in human history.
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You are denying that human beings are valuable because of the kind of entity that they are, and you are instead claiming that the moral value of human beings is derived from some acquired characteristic (“mental capability”), that some human beings have and others do not, and which varies in degree from one human being to the next.
ProWomanProLife » “Raising a daughter is like watering your neighbour’s garden” 2009
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For better than half the worlds population that had been mired in the muck of socialism for half a century to suddenly break free and to begin to realize some of their innate potentials as human beings is truly one of the great events in human history.
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Tell them, teach them, that caring for other beings, is always beautiful, no matter what it looks like.
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