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Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves. ↗

— Arthur C. McGill

#life #death

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#much #soul #style #under #words

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#believe #between #deserves #distinction #fuzzy

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#america #city #crime #design #last

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#inevitable #magic #seems #will #word

She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death

Dying is the day worth living for. ↗

— pirates of carrabien

#good-ones #humor #life #death

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States. ↗