"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."
-Allen Klein
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"I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet."
-David Ortiz
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
-Mario Puzo
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
-Alastair Campbell
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
-Fiona Shaw
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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