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 | "All that makes existence valuable to anyone, depends on the
enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as
numbers increase.... The human question is not how many can possibly
survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for
those who do survive." | |
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Frank Patrick Herbert
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| "I have an existential map; it has "you are here" written all over
it." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five
hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to
the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness." | |
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James Thurber
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| "I want to look at life ? at the commonplaces of existence ? as if we
had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time." | |
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Christopher Fry
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| "No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in
explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is
simply illusion." | |
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Fred Rogers
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| "Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak
minds are servility crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on
her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even
the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of
the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we
have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about
us." | |
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Quentin Crisp
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