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By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib. Michel Onfray
afterlife judgment protect
I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. Charlotte Gainsbourg
afterlife people over-you
Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people. Bill Maher
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I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.' Drew Barrymore
afterlife profound funny-graduation
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. Art Buchwald
afterlife soul gauges
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. Anton Chekhov
afterlife age get-better
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. Bonnie Raitt
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I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive. Gil Scott-Heron
afterlife gold purses
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. Adelbert von Chamisso
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene. Al Pacino
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I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs. Mark Kennedy
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When you talk about the glass movement in this country it's actually fairly young and it's at a time when Chihuly and the other forefathers if you want to use that term are still alive and working. Joanna Sikes
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It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well. Gunter Grass
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We have seen an incredible outpouring of energy, support and passion towards the goal of keeping (the temple) alive and vital. When an obstacle presents itself, how do you respond to it- as a tragedy or an opportunity? Don Stark
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We have no excuse to not get back to where we were at or even better. I think the competition will be greater from now on because of the stretch drive. Some teams are going to try to secure playoff spots. Some teams are going to try to get back in the mix. Some teams, like us, are trying to stay alive and move up with the big guys. Martin Brodeur
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We want everything to be hands-on. The curriculum should be alive for the students, instead of flat ... They are challenged, but they're able to express themselves and think outside of the box and really understand topics in depth.
alive currents ifs
If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. Alan King
alive doe birth
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. Charlotte Bronte
mines next original
These mines were the original lottery. You dig, you get nothing. You dig, you get nothing. But the next shovel-full is going to be it.
mines
A friend in word is never friend of mine. Sophocles
mines
Mine, ... Mine is what she is. Patricia Briggs
mines second son work youngest
My father-in-law used to work in the mines years ago and my youngest son is presently working out here on second shift.
mines worked
I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.
mines has-beens
There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine. Hillary Clinton
mines liver
I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine. George Best
mines safer
I don't know how they could really make mines much safer than they are. What else can they really do. James Cook
mines shorthand
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. Tolkien