Will Self Quotes
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
Will Self
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Hal Borland
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Bebe Rexha
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Gary Sheffield
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Orison Swett Marden
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Emma Stone
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Carl Linnaeus
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Ernest Renan
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
Will Self
