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Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the conditio

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

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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I dont know any smokers now, not even my mom. – Jane Smiley

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mom
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Jane Smiley
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Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for ones accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not. – Jane Smiley

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Death
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I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death. – Elton John

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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Death

Andrew Woods death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that. – Layne Staley

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Death

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. – Paul Kurtz

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A liberal is man who will give away everything he doesnt own. – Frank Dane

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Im an un-healable positive optimist. – Andre Rieu

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