Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge. .Gore Vidal
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Bertrand Russell said that he wished that he could have a chance to meet with his father. His father's death had not been easy, and Bertrand was very close to him. Bertrand learned that his father had died in a hospital, but he did not know the details of the death. He said that he would have liked to have known how it happened, what his father did or did not have control of. He would have liked to have asked his father what he thought about the event, how he felt during this time.
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