"The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty."

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Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.76

William Mountford

#Death Quotes #Home Quotes #Age Quotes

“They may say, 'He's small. We really don't know if he can get the job done.' But they said that about me coming out of high school.”
“[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.”
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”
“Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.”

Source : Mark Bauerlein (2008). “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)”, p.9, Penguin
“A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.”
“It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.”
“The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.”

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