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It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

~Alan Ball

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I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Actually Always Animal Believed Create Events Existence Fact Human Human Nature Nature New Qualities Random Replicate Spirits Those Which

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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: About Air Arrangement Beings Breathe Central Consciousness Existence Fact Gives In Fact Intelligent Interesting Know Like May Me Most Neurons Never Our Particular Passage Problem Rise Science Time

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Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

~Alan Lowenthal

Topics: Almost Aspect Change Climate Climate Change Every Existence Human Human Existence Threatens

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The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Boost Cause Constant Existence Family Fine Get Hospitals Idiotic John Leading Major Members Mouths Open Opening Reminder Republican Rhetoric Royal Statements Trouble

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I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Clear Existence Full-Time Having Life My Life New New Thing Thing Used Very

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

~Albert Camus

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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Any Associate Belief Conscious Existence Found Idea Immortality Kind Lead Life Most Much Perhaps Quality Quality Of Life Reason Us Which

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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

~Albert Schweitzer

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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: About Care Constant Displacement Everything Existence Guaranteed Instability Love Sense Wait I Love

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