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Immortality
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my
work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
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-Woody Allen
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You and I want our lives to matter. We want our
lives to make a real difference--to be of genuine consequence in the world. We
know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if
those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those
motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In
fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the
world work.
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-Werner Erhard
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Millions long for immortality who do not know
what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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-Susan Ertz
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*You know how people long to
be eternal. But they die with every day that passes. When you meet them,
they're not what you met last. In any given hour, they kill some part of
themselves. They change, they deny, they contradict-and they call it growth.
At the end there's nothing left, nothing unreversed or unbetrayed; as if there
had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out on
an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they have never held
for a single moment?
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-Steven Mallory, a character in Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Three : Gail Wynand, Ch. 4
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My ambition in life is to live forever--so
far, so good
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-Unknown
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The monuments of the nations are all protests
against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is
history.
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-Lew Wallace
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