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extinction

«There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.»
«He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.»
Author: Rabbi Hillel | Keywords: extinction, refuses
«Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.»
«Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset | Keywords: extinction
«Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction»
«EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.»
«That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.»
«Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: extinction
«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»
«More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.»

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