After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
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I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
“Show me a quest for personal immortality and I'll show you a path through a slaughterhouse, and the incense of personal divinity… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
It carried quite a wallop. I have all the classic symptoms. Reflection. Where am I now? Where have I come from? What's… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training… — Yuichiro Miura Copy Share Image
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Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
“You are mine, woman. And I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Darkness is death. We can speak, but we're not heard. We can scream, but the turn their backs. We can run, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
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It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with the pain and trauma, learn to cope on… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
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In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and… — Bible Copy Share Image
What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of… — Alexander Monro Copy Share Image
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