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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to. ↗

— Parvesh Cheena

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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation. ↗

— Ernst Haeckel

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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work. ↗

— Amartya Sen

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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#birthdays #close #closest #couple #cousins

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#big #big ones #break #closest #died

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

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Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string. ↗

— Robin Williams

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