"In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life."

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"In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life."

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"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Hate is hostility."

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