... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world,… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The duration of our mortality is spent having instances transform us, whether we want them to or not. We're molded into some… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I will not stand by and let any man believe his death is an act of one of the gods. They don't… — Katie Hamstead Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
“You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body pressed… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate… — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“How shall we live? How to face our mortality? How to live with the knowledge that we are simply life forms, thrown… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me,… — Lew Temple Copy Share Image
“Man’s mortality is therefore a phenomenon that runs counter to his nature in that it opposes that for which he has been… — Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Copy Share Image
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“This is mortality: to move along a rectilinear line in a universe where everything, if it moves at all, moves in a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my arm, the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he… — Alma P Burton Copy Share Image
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon… — Eric Pianka Copy Share Image
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I know now that everything after the accident was merely a tactic to indulge in escapism and self-delusion. When you are hit… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
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