God cares for everyone, but society is supposed to as well. We strive to live in a world that places tremendous, even infinite value on a single human life. We do not live in that society.

You are so... human. You still think it has to be someone. It wasn't anyone, it was all of you.

You're radically collaborative, profoundly empathetic, and deeply communal. Everyone who tells you anything different is selling the fear that is the only thing that can break that nature.

The story of humanity is not a story of a few people who had huge, gigantic effects on the world. That's only the story we hear, because it's the easy story to tell. Caring for ourselves and other people is the only thing that has ever mattered to the future of our species.

Even on this most terrible days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human.

Collections of individuals are beautiful, but they are as common as pelagibacter. Collections of ideas are veins of gold in our universe. They must be cherished and protected.

Humanity, what do you think of us?""Beautiful," Carl replied.

We are each individuals, but the far greater thing is what we are together, and if that isn't protected and cherished, we are headed to a bad place.