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Quote by Thornton Wilder
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of

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. – Thornton Wilder

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When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when youre having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. – Thornton Wilder

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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. – Thornton Wilder

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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. – Thornton Wilder

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We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. – Robert Falcon Scott

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. – Gertrude Stein

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Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. – Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. – William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs

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Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol boys about college sports because I follow it like they do. – Kay Bailey Hutchison

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Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home. – Novalis

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When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. – Juan Goytisolo

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