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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
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Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
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The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We…
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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers…
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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are…
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A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it…
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
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Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us,…
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The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the…
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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
— Hermann Hesse
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us,…
— Robert Ardrey
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What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is…
— Epictetus
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us,…
— Epictetus
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The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
— Claudius Claudianus
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb…
— Hermann Hesse
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It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
— Thomas Merton
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The light will disturb us when we're comfortable, and comfort us when we're disturbed. We turn to spirit for help when our…
— Dan Millman
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