Ernest Becker Quotes
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
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A man of the utmost insignificance.
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If climate change drove the megafauna extinct, then this presents yet another reason to worry about what we are doing to global temperatures. If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an “overkiller”—pretty much right from the start.
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If warming were held to a minimum, the team estimated that between 22 and 31 percent of the species would be “committed to extinction” by 2050. If warming were to reach what was at that point considered a likely maximum—a figure that now looks too low—by the middle of this century, between 38 and 52 percent of the species would be fated to disappear.
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Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.
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Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
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...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
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I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.
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Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.
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All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.
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I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
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Black is a girl's best friend.
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Every race is like training and preparation.
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The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.
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The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.
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What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.
