"Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of."

-- Christopher Hitchens

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“One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.”
“Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.”
“The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.”
“I'll never be a weightlifter..”
“If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.”

Source : Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, (483), 1934.
“A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.”
“In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.”
“August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.”

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