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Jack London1876–1916

He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

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The Call of the Wild (1903), Chapter VI

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
The Bulletin, San Francisco (2 December 1916), part 2, p. 1, ten days after his deathOften credited to Ian Fleming
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.
“Confession” in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, (2013)
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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
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What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97
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