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Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

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Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. ↗

— Pindar

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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. ↗

— William James

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In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

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Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ↗

— George William Russell

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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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