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Life and Death
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
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A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
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Sanity is madness put to good use.
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Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death
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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
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Life is too important to take seriously.
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
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He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
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Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
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I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.
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The Earth is the cradle of the mind — but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
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Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
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Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
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All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
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