"Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance."

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Source : Joseph Bayly (1969). “The View from a Hearse: A Christian View of Death”

Joseph Bayly

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“Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.”
“In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me”
“Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.”
“It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.”
“All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.”
“If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.”

Source : Astrid Lindgren's acceptance speech for The Right Livelihood Award, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1994.
“I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.”
“Definitely. The way I look is a reflection of who I am. That's how my music is too.”

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