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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living."

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Ti West Filmmaker
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"The bad guys, when they start getting picked off, they're upset that their friends died, too. But that's the thing. That's what life is. It's that weird gray area."

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