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Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.
Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.
The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.
The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.
The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.
We must recognize that we cannot allow the Islamic State to continue to present an existential threat to America.
there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep
Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list
For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.
I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.
There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.
Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.
All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.
We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record is terrible.
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.