“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
Part 4 : The Masculinization of Wealth, p. 196
Moving Beyond Words (1994)
“On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.”
Source: Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence (2006), Introduction, p. 13
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Original: (de) Mein Gott, fiel es mir mit Ungestüm ein, so bist du also. Es giebt Beweise für deine Existenz. Ich habe sie alle vergessen und habe keinen je verlangt, denn welche unge heuere Verpflichtung läge in deiner Gewißheit. Und doch, nun wird mirs gezeigt.
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