“You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
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Variant: No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
Daybreak http://books.google.com/books?id=Imte1JcsQ64C&q=%22You+don't+get+to+choose+how+you're+going+to+die+Or+when+You+can+only+decide+how+you're+going+to+live+Now%22&pg=PA135#v=onepage (1968)
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