"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."

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Source : "The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations". Book by Mark Water, p. 111, 2000.

Julie Burchill

#Love Quotes #Death Quotes #Condolences Quotes

“We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.”
“If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.”
“There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.”
“I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.”
“It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.”
“Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.”
“My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.”

Source : "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.
“Wise men don't judge: They seek to understand.”

Source : "Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1958.

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