"New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive."
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"I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive."
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"Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum."
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"To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one’s own arrival and will survive one’s own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death."
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"Only love can keep anyone alive."
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"People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler."
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"I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it."
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"I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best."
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"He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod."
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"I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words."
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"They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive."
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"that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive."
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"Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive."
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"Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive."
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"It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth."
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"It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive."
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"It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it."
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"Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells."
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"As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die."
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"I saw that she was crying. Before I knew it, I was kissing her. Others on the platform were staring at us, but I didn't care about such things anymore. We were alive, she and I. And all we had to think about was continuing to live."
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