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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?"

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Tariq Ali Author, Political Activist
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"The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever."

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"Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!"

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever."

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"It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them."

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Ray Bradbury Author
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"Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Winter isn't forever. Winter is always followed by spring. And it's how to take advantage of whatever season you're in."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever."

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