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Jodi Rell

"I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer."

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"I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer."

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Akiroq Brost

"There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die."

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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

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"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."

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"Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?"

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"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."

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"Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it'slike to be dying, and (b) not have died."

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"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

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"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

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"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"

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"This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs."
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"At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security."
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"We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism."
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"Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels."
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"I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action."
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"We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation."
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"We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about."
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"The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now."
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"I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington."
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