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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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Death is a state of non-being. That which is not, does not exist. Therefore death does not exist.
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent... in that way.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
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