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In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and…
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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual…
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We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the…
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The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in…
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,…
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Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be –…
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Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
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A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
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When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving'…
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The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.
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Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.
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If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
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Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning…
— Napoleon Hill
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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals…
— Jared Diamond
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I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the…
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one,…
— Doris Janzen Longacre
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It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made…
— Tom Wolfe
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I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
— Michael Bennet
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