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		The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leon Edel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Those are the stakes that are constantly there and how do those stakes change you? How does that change the person you are? If it does just turn out to be about survival then is that living? How does that make you, you? How does that change your identity? That picture of the governor, his wife, and his daughter, he wasn't that guy before this all started. People dying around him changed him into that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Scott M. Gimple
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Diamandis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tyne Daly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ursula K. Le Guin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Clive Barnes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. G. Ballard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marianne Williamson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		How sweet on the breeze of the evening swellsThe vesper call of those soothing bells,Borne softly and dying in echoes away,Like a requiem sung to the parting day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Letitia Elizabeth Landon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Bukowski
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jan Schakowsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jose Maria Aznar