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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
— Oscar Wilde
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I think, therefore I am.
— René Descartes
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
— William Shakespeare
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
— David Hume
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
— Friedrich Engels
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Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
— Bill Bryson
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from A Short History of Nearly Everything
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