#immortal

Immortality is a by-product of good work. ↗

— Mel Brooks

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Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

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If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

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Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. ↗

— Werner Von Braun

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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality. ↗

— George Wald

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I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet. ↗

— Terence Young

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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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