Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.

Christos Yannaras
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The most beautiful thing in the world is the human mind. Human beings are unique individuals, each with their own interests, desires, and needs.

Source: Relational Ontology

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