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• What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life.
• The only certain thing in life is death.
• The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
• here's nothing of any importance in life -- except how well you do your work.
  Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that....
• All life is barriers. All growth is the transcendence of barriers.
  It's the dividing line that makes everything possible....
• The moment in which you confront your own death is the moment in which you are most totally alive.
  -- Solomon Sho...
• Going to the dentist can be more a matter of attitude than anything else.
  It can be a drilling time, or it can bore you to death....
• Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated.
  It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty....
• It's all a matter of life and death, so beware of the undead.