"Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully."

Mortality, Power, Kindness, Legacy

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"Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully."

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"But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,But that the earthy and cold hand of deathLies on my tongue."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right."

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

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"Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?"

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"It is hard to die unmourned."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us."

Religion

"God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change."

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"For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law."

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"That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."