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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.


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FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders w...
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BRUCE GOMBAR You can't deal with being odd?
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RYAN REYNOLDS As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT In the City of Death, they are bound and beaten, and no one hears their prayers.
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MICHAEL ENDE I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to t...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall betwe...
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BARD ELDEN Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL There was no crime committed. These agents had 15 years experience between them. They have been invo...
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ELIE WIESEL Dear Child,

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