#extinct

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy. ↗

— Brian Perkins

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If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#extinct #good #i #know #music

Don't forget this club nearly went out of extinction last year. ↗

— Alan Smith

#extinction #forget #last #last year #nearly

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing). ↗

— Bill Gaede

#extinction #gaede #hypothesis #knowledge #prediction

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. ↗

— Bill Gaede

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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. ↗

— Wade Davis

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Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction. ↗

— George G. Simpson

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Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#economic-collapse #environmentalism #extinction #gaede #globalization

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#human #human race #physical #possibility #race