The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
~ Mark Twain
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The body is a temple.
~ Immanuel Kant
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
~ Mark Twain
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The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good. The good is no longer even being measured.
~ Hannah Arendt
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone’s life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Financial World Magazine – October 1989
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
~ Immanuel Kant
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
~ Mark Twain
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