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We have seen death before, Marnie and I, a mountain of ice melting over time, drops of water freezing at your core reminding you every day of that which has vanished, but the despair we know today is a sadness sailing sorrow through every bone and knuckle. ↗

— Lisa O'Donnell

#death

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#extraterrestrial-life #life #science #universe #wonder

Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span... ↗

— Isabel Allende

#death

I got my degree in rhetoric. ↗

— Alex Borstein

#got #i #rhetoric

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. ↗

— James Boswell

#considerable #diffused #into #journal #like

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ↗

— James Boswell

#argument #find #found #i #i am

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#happiness #liberty #life #nation #our

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#business #enjoy #forest #important #important issue

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#clout #commission #control #decisions #developing

Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling. ↗

— Brian Bosworth

#career #consider #due #i #impossible