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«The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.»

Author: George Carlin (Actor, Author, Comedian) | Keywords: close, close set, closing time, existence, fire, flame, flamed, In Flames, job, just in time, on fire, proves, set, somewhere, The Job

«The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.»

Author: Buddha | About: Existence | Keywords: depend, depend on, existence, fear, freed, freeing, help, help out, moment, never, no., no, No Fear, No One, No Secrets, reject, secret, the whole way, whole, wholes

«The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence»

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: beautifully, existence, lives, reflect

«We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.»

Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | Keywords: appear, board, boarded, boarding, Board of, existence, five, justify, justifying, liquidation, obliged, obliges, obliging, pain, take five, years

«Thirst for existence, O monks, has a specific condition, it is nourished by something, it also does not go without support. And what is that nourishment? It is ignorance.»

Author: Buddha | Keywords: condition, existence, Monks, nourished, nourishment, specific, specifics, support, The Monk, The Monks, thirst, thirsted, thirsting

«When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality»

Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: absolute, absolutes, existence, fears, perceive, permanent, pettier, petty, pleasures, reality, shadow, Shadow of the, The Shadow, unhurried, Worthies, worthiest, worthy

«We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.»

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Keywords: existence, human being, so to speak, twice

«Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: anew, conquers, daily, earns, existence, firm, firmer, firmest, firming, firms, freedom, hold, last, persistence, result, stamping, stamps, stamp out, The Last, wisdom, yes

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