"Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being."

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Source : Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.155

Frederic Henry Hedge

#Death Quotes #Birth Quotes #This Life Quotes

“It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.”
“If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.”
“You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.”
“A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.”
“My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.”
“Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.”

Source : "America Abroad" by Strobe Talbott, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.
“Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.”
“You have something in this world, so stand for it.”

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