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“We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.”

People World Feelings Body Action Suffering Universe Existence Strange Senses Contact Aliens Sensations Organisms Hallucinations Physical Body Living Organisms

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other”

“Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.”

People Needs Existence Conviction Thread Beaten Hammers

Book:The Good Guy

Source: The Good Guy

“I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.”

“For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.”

People Way Long Ends Running Race Existence Growing Including Long Runs Traps Organisms Rats Tubes Apprehension Farce Rat Race Living Organisms

Author:Alan Watts

“You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on.”

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Author:Michael Schur

“It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.”

People Thinking Way Want Jobs Moving Actors Process Existence Wonderful Doors Yeah Actresses Profession Actors And Actresses Dilettantes

Author:Miranda Richardson

“One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.”

People Humans Existence Alive Sorrow Misery Human Existence

Book:Lightning

Source: Lightning

“There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.”

People Believe Doe Two Causes Forget Existence Perceive Prime

Book:A Confession: The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe

Source: A Confession: The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe

“Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.”

People Country Helping Energy Existence Talent Bases Lays Ancient Japan Asia Ancient Times

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.”

People Feels Answers Existence Tragedy Speed Complexity Disturbed Velocity

Author:David Whyte

“Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.”

People Mind Reading Imagination Existence Quality Teacher Taught Ready Mindfulness Work Out Intimate Shock Gymnasiums

Author:Robert Hass

“The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.”

People Knows Children Persons Able Culture Games Can Do Existence Magic

Author:Terence McKenna

“Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.”

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.”

“Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.”

People Way Names Existence Findings Patterns Conjuring

Book:They have a word for it: a lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words & phrases

Source: They have a word for it: a lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words & phrases

“And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War - and part of the winning side of the Cold War.”

People Made War Jobs Courses Winning Sides Effort Existence Cold Comfortable West East Germany Cold War West Germany

Author:Stefan Heym

“A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.”

People Men Kind Different Cities Existence Different Kinds

Author:Aristotle

“Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is... a lie.”

People Way Mind Stills Self Lying Existence Personality Flattering Caricatures Still Life

Book:Seven Gothic Tales

Source: Seven Gothic Tales

“The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.”

People Real Helping Asks Difficult Existence Significant

Book:Memories of myself: essays

Source: Memories of myself: essays

“I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.”

People Kind States Social Existence Risk Acceptance Offers Messages Dare Dependent Routine Floating Margins Message Of Hope Social Acceptance

Book:Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation

“If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.”

People Ifs Thinking War Existence Beneficial

Author:Chuck D

“I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for supplying tomatoes to the Parliament House kitchen. But, no, as I soon learnt as industry minister, it was in fact a government funded redoubt of veritable soldiers in a war against carbon dioxide. The zealotry and obsessive passion of these warriors in the battle against the apparent evils of carbon dioxide remains a curiosity to me. After fighting these people for three years as industry minister, I really did wish they would just go away and grow tomatoes.”

“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.”

People Years Different Spirit Jesus Existence Four Periods Holy Thousand Hundred Holy Spirit Appropriate Spokes Dozen Mary Thousand Years Different Peoples

Author:Andrew Wommack

“The world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever.”

People World Feels Different Reality Would Be Existence Rocks Different Worlds Limousines

Author:David Bowie

“I've been studying sexism for many years, and it's much easier to document the existence of sexism than it is to document the existence of interventions that reduce it. It's really hard to find ways to change the way people see people in different groups. It should be our goal, and we're working for that, but it's hard.”

People Way Should Years Different Hard Goal Existence Study Groups Easier Sexism Documents Intervention

Author:Amy Cuddy

“My daughter is a practicing physician so believe me I get a lot of the frustration from her. You get it from patients. For me personally, when I ask my doctor to send me my record, what I get is a scanned PDF of his hard copy! This is not good. It would be hopeless to work with a million people if you had to do this on paper, and one of the reasons this is the right time for this is because of the existence of EHRs.”

People Ifs Believe Hard Reason Would Be Asks Existence Millions Records Paper Daughter Doctors Patient Frustration My Daughter Hopeless Copies Believe In Me Physicians Right Time

Author:Francis Collins

“Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes: Your own existence! It is also your best present to others!”

People Years Existence New Year Never Change

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant leap of faith - but I am convinced that belief in God is a far more reasonable position than atheism. Nature, the personal experience of literally billions of people, and something innate in the heart of man all testify to the existence of God.”

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Author:George Sweeting

“In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.”

People Knows Way Two Purpose Suffering Goal Existence Century Creating Working It New Ways Millennium

Author:Anton Chekhov

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