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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift

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The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. – David Byrne

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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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An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. – Stanislav Grof

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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. – David Mamet

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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. – Richard Bach

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