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• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
• As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
• I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
• I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every… — J. J. Abrams
• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a… — Karen Armstrong
• Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -… — Matthew Arnold
• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
• Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden

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