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WHAT IS THIS WORLD?

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“What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment.  You judge of the continuous existence of the world, as an ephemeral insect might judge of yours. The world is eternal for you, as you are eternal to the being that lives but for one instant. Yet the insect is the more reasonable of the two. For what a prodigious succession of ephemeral generations attests your eternity! What an immeasurable tradition! Yet shall we all pass away, without the possibility of assigning either the real extension that we filled in space, or the precise time that we shall have endured. Time, matter, space—all, it may be, are no more than a point.”

Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784), Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)

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PROPAGANDA IN PARADISE

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“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.” — Adolph Hitler  (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945)

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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.” — Ayn Rand  (January 20, 1905 – March 6, 1982)

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“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.” — C. P. Snow  (15 October 1905–1 July 1980)

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“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” — Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)

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“We are the people our parents warned us about.”
– Jimmy Buffett  (December 25, 1946 — )