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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community) Wendell Berry
Ron Chernow quote: "I think one of the important things that's happened in the..."
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. Ron Chernow
There he is, in the fading light, certain of what he wants, certain of her. If Gillian were speaking to her sister, or more correctly, if Sally were speaking to her, Gillian would draw her over to the window to get a look. Isn't he beautiful? That's what she would have said if she and Sally had been talking. I wish I deserved him, she would have whispered into her sister's ear. Alice Hoffman
Woody Allen quote: "I can't fight. I was once run over by a car with a flat tire,..."
I can't fight. I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys. Woody Allen
My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me. Paul McDonald
John Jay quote: "Those who own the country ought to govern it."
Those who own the country ought to govern it. John Jay
We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land. Umberto Eco
To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!' Catherine O'Hara
There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything. Cass Sunstein
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own. Mark Haddon
Carl Sagan quote: "You have to know the past to understand the present."
You have to know the past to understand the present. Carl Sagan
Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine Marie Antoinette
George Orwell quote: "Men are only as good as their technical development allows..."
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. George Orwell
Herman Hesse quote: "genius in love is the yearning to handover"
genius in love is the yearning to handover Herman Hesse
I have never run for political office, but every night I am reaching out to millions of Americans on the radio and I am deeply concerned that the middle class of the United States is being sold out to multi-national corporations with a globalist agenda. George Noory