"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."

Donella Meadows, American Environmentalist

Existence,

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"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."

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"We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life."

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"And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud."

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"That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?''Yes' Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."

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"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."

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"A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory."

Paul Davies, British Writer

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"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence."

Friedrich Engels, German Philosopher

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