"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."
-James Russell Lowell
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"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.“
-James Russell Lowell
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"On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women."
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"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."
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"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."
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"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."
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"The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it."
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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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