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  1. Jean-Paul Sartre _ Existentialism is a Humanism

    Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....
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  2. Jean-Paul Sartre _ No Exit

    I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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  3. Milan Kundera _ The Joke

    How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?
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  4. Sydney Herbert Evershed

    In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as I have by me at the moment.{a} Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy of a system which cannot be converted into work by even a perfect heat engine.-Clausius.{b} Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy which can be converted into work by a perfect engine.-Maxwell, following Tait.{c} Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy which is not converted into work by our imperfect engines.-Swinburne.{d} Entropy {in a volume of gas} is that which remains constant when heat neither enters nor leaves the gas.-W. Robinson.{e} Entropy may be called the 'thermal weight', temperature being called the 'thermal height.'-Ibid.{f} Entropy is one of the factors of heat, temperature being the other.-Engineering
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