Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable”
“There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.”
Source: The History of Love
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(1978) American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor
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Susan Stebbing
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“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
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(1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
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Stanley Kubrick
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Louis C.K.
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“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”
Arundhati Roy
(1961) Indian novelist, essayist
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf.
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Source: The Cost of Living
“I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.”
Dan Simmons
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Endymion
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 4 (p. 20)