"What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms."

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Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

Ernest Becker

#Mean Quotes #Animal Quotes #Self Quotes

“Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.”
“I get really frustrated if people don't smile.”
“I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.”
“I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.”
“I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.”
“Excellence demands that you be better than yourself.”

Source : Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom, Robert C. Larson (1988). “The best of Ted Engstrom on personal excellence and leadership”, Here's Life Pub
“Love is when you let someone be the way they are.”
“The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people.”

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