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Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
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I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
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They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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