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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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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire
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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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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. – Stanislav Grof

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People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death. – Alveda King

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Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. Its not unique to Christianity. – Deepak Chopra

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