Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is… — Bernard Membe Copy Share Image
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
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“Epidemiologic theory. As a phrase, it sounds at once dry and arcane.Yet, in reality, it is vital and engaging. Epidemiologic theory is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“Death may in some traditions be a vivid experience, but within much of the white tradition it is a blank that may… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
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I basically learned that you must get out of your losses immediately. It's not merely a matter of how much you can… — Randy McKay Copy Share Image
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
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“That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.” — Robert E. Neale Copy Share Image
If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me in… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
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