“If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more.”

— Sidney Poitier

"Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier", http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-Sidney-Poitier/1 O Magazine, October 2000

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