"The first requisite for immortality is death."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on immortality
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"The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on strength
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"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."

Rockefeller, John D. on concentration   

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

Keller, Helen on risk
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"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."

Sontag, Susan on existence   

"The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself."

Hoffer, Eric on existence   

"To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being."

Cioran, E. M. on existence   

"There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be."

Cioran, E. M. on existence
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"In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on thoughts and thinking
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"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

Allen, James on thoughts and thinking
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."

Carroll, Lewis on destiny
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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."

Weil, Simone on destiny   

"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes."

Beckett, Samuel on destiny   

"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny."

Hobbes, John Oliver on destiny
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"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."

Baker, Ivy on beginning
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