"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."
-Mark Twain
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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.“
-Mark Twain
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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
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"Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
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"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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