"Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice."

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— Neil Gaiman

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"Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong."

— Graham Greene

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"The religious approach to spirituality is like delighting in a gourmet meal; the scientific approach is like studying recipes or chemically analyzing the ingredients of the menu."

— Varadaraja V. Raman

Education1932

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"Behr, I cannot imagine that I, as a Field Marshal, the one who out of conviction in victory for my country am responsible for the deaths of hundreds of my soldiers, should now emerge from these woods …"

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