Ernest Becker Quotes
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
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Cause I'm a stealer, fresh up out the dealer All the dope boys gon feel her
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When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
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I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.
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Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect.
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Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the line and becomes bullying if it damages friendships and causes people to dislike someone.
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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.
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Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
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Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.
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Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.
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I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.
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Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.
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Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.
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Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.
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We’re mortals, and you do question your mortality when something like this happens. But he’s over the hurdle now.
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Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.
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The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.
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In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them.
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In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
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Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
