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“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
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“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
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And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
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“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.”
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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