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Thornton Wilder

"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."

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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."

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"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

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"Our life is made by the death of others."

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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

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"I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry."

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"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."

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"I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God."

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"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states."

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"Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner."

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"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

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"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests."
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