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“Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.”
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“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”
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“I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.”
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“I do not want the voice of the people shut out.”
Source : Remarks in the Senate, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 75, p. 10297, May 16, 1932.
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“My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”
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“Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.”
Source : J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.88, InterVarsity Press
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“Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the welcomes, and loves and raptures of those who left us with tearful farewells, and with dying promises that they would wait to welcomes us when we should arrive. And so they do. Not sorrowfully, not anxiously, but lovingly, they wait to bid us welcome.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 305), 1895.
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“Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.”
