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- Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes, in hospitals and forests and abattoirs. For some folks death is a release and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman #20: Facade
- When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming. I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky."
- Walter Slovotsky, _The Warrior Lives_ by Joel Rosenberg
- We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.
- Josephine Hart, "Sin"
- Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
- Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
- The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine. - from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
- Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- Two sodium atoms are walking along the street when one stops and says, "Oh my God, I think I've lost an electron!" "Are you sure?" asks the other sodium atom. "Yes," replies the first sodium atom, "I'm positive."
- Anonymous
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