"As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born â€“ and particularly bad luck it is."

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Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press

David Benatar

#Luck Quotes #Enough Quotes #Born Quotes

“If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.”
“Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.”
“Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.”

Source : Julian Johnson (2011). “Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value”, p.55, Oxford University Press
“As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour”
“I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.”
“People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle without changing anything in social programs, or any redistribution. And they take their votes for a given. They have rich people that bankroll them. And the globalization would continue, but it would continue with permanent dissatisfaction among large segments of the people.”
“If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.”
“I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.”

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