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Quote by Jonathan Swift
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so un

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. – Jonathan Swift

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves. – Jonathan Swift

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death. – Floyd Patterson

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Im very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. Whats most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. – Hugh Hefner

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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. – Miguel de Unamuno

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The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. – Dennis Prager

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Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor. – John Bates Clark

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. – Vincent Van Gogh

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