Edwin S. Shneidman Quotes
There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is "appropriate" for that person. It is a death in which the hand of the way of dying slips easily into the glove of the act itself. It is in character, ego-syntonic. It, the death, fits the person. It is a death that one might choose if it were realistically possible for one to choose one's own death.
Edwin S. Shneidman
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Barbra Streisand
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Kara Hayward
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Orison Swett Marden
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
Beatrice Dalle
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
Florynce Kennedy
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
Garry Trudeau
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C. Everett Koop
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Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
Carlos Ghosn