"The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality."
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"There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children"
"For nothing is evil in the beginning."
"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality."
"Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50."
"There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies."
"Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience."
"I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me."
"Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span."
"I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality."
"What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?"
"Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank."
"Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end."
"As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases."
"Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much."
"There is nothing serious in Mortality"
"Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!"
"Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die."
"Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!"
"There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate."
"It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality."