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- Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed,…
- It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the…
- On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.
- Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is…
- It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely…
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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… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong