"One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world."

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Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

Roger Rosenblatt

#Death Quotes #Real Quotes #Important Quotes

“We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.”
“If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."”
“Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.”

Source : "The Hidden Stream". Book by Ronald Knox, p. 105, 1952.
“Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.”
“A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.”
“If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.”
“You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.”
“If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.”

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