Mortality Quotes - Page 20

• Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

  Jose A. Teixeira

  Jesus, Understanding, Purpose

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• Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1003, Delphi Classics

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• Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

  Mason Cooley

  Acquittal, Series, Postponement

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• The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

  Sarah Manguso

  Running, Privilege, Time Passing

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• Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.

  Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

  Mother, Rights, Abortion

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• In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.

  Michael Sandel

  Pregnancy, Eggs, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

  Lee Unkrich

  Kids, Adults

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

  Peter Morgan

  Demise, Our Relationship, Increase

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Lyric Poetry

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still the poorest of the poor. And we are still statistically considered to be extremely disrupted culturally, and have extreme health needs in many areas, as well as high suicide rates and infant mortality rates.

  Leonard Peltier

  Suicide, Rooms, Needs

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."

  Denis Leary

  Smart, Ideas, Sound

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how much more I have to learn. It's a singular feeling, both spiritual and corporeal, and I like to think it sparks the same inspiration and curiosity in a child that it does in an old man.

  Kit Williamson

  Spiritual, Children, Inspiration

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• Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.

  Robin Lim

  Country, Mean, Usa

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and societal meanings - religious, legal, sexual - encompassing mortality and sin and family and eternity.

  Monica Youn

  Religious, Thinking, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

  Tilda Swinton

  Thinking, Doctors, Mind

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• What happened in Cuba, just to cut to the chase, their death rate from diabetes went down 50%, their death rate from heart attacks and stroke went down approximately 30% and all-cause mortality went down 18% while they adhered to the system. Then they opened up their pipeline again from Venezuela, and their health improvements went away.

  Jill Stein

  Heart, Cutting, Cuba

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Cancer, Scare

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• In Sweden for example people with PhDs have lower mortality than those with a masters degree. And people with a masters degree or a professional degree are not poor.

  Michael Marmot

  People, Degrees, Example

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• It is Christ's atonement that makes it possible for us to be forgiven of our sins and His resurrection that gives us the assurance of immortality and the life to come. It is that life to come that orients our views in mortality and reinforces our determination to live the laws of God so that we can qualify for His blessings in immortality.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Determination, Blessing, Views

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Same-gender attraction did not exist in the pre-earth life and neither will it exist in the next life. It is a circumstance that for whatever reason or reasons seems to apply right now in mortality, in this nano-second of our eternal existence.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Earth Life, Next, Reason

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• The good news for somebody who is struggling with same-gender attraction is this: It is that 'I'm not stuck with it forever.' It's just now. Admittedly, for each one of us, it's hard to look beyond the 'now' sometimes. But nonetheless, if you see mortality as now, it's only during this season.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Struggle, Forever, Looks

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

  Suzy Nakamura

  People, Want, Illness

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, which is enormous. But again, I'm actually giving you grounds for optimism: There were enough to continue. The five per cent who made it through are what you need to survive a bottleneck, which we have been through before.

  Margaret Atwood

  America, Giving, Optimism

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lord’s way. Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Letting Go, People, Perfect

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• Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.

  Ita Buttrose

  Women, Years, Marching On

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