For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. – Albert Camus
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, dont make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasnt death. – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Vets do what doctors used to – diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death. – Jane Smiley
If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about … five minutes. – Anon.
I was really desperate. I dont know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didnt want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didnt mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree. – Shannon Lucid
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. – Dag Hammarskjold
