"The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."

-- Richard Dawkins

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“He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.”
“Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.”
“The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.”

Source : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”
“I wear boxers all the time. I don't really move like a girl. I mean, unless it's time for me to get dressed or something.”

Source : Source: whatthehellz.com
“It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.”
“Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.”
“Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.”

Source : Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
“You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant”

Source : "Life as a House". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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