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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
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We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
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We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.
Rick Moody (2007) 60 -
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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We could not guess how different from us they (extraterrestrials) might be. It was hard enough to guess the intentions of our elected representatives in Washington.
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We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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