I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. - Milan Kundera - Quotesmemo.com

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I grew up in Del Mar, Calif. , north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.

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Milan Kundera

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

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Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

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The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

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I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

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Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

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