"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side."
-James Anthony Froude
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"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.“
-James Anthony Froude
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"Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive."
-James Anthony Froude
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"The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it."
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"In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty."
-James Anthony Froude
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"To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible."
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"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."
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"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."
-Allen Klein
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"I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet."
-David Ortiz
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
-Mario Puzo
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
-Alastair Campbell
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
-Fiona Shaw
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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