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Life and Death
After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. [Select] In the end, everything is a gag. [Select] Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. [Select] Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. [Select] It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all. [Select] The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. [Select] The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. [Select] Hard reality has a way of cramping your style. [Select] Daniel Dennett {Also in: Success and Failure} We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. [Select] I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave. [Select] Dominic (on the psychology of a gambler) {Also in: Success and Failure} Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think, and a docudrama with ugly actors for those who film docudramas. [Select] Dr. Squid {Also in: Altruism and Cynicism} The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story... [Select] Dr. Squid {Also in: Altruism and Cynicism} I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough. [Select] Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. [Select] Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. [Select] It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. [Select] Euripides: Orestia We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. [Select] Dave Farber: Icon Programming Language Home Page I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. [Select] Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked. [Select] Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. [Select]
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