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He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.George Orwell
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Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life.George Orwell