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I may feel like an alien in this city's rush, where buildings replace nature's touch, and bars echo louder than the stars' symphony. But I know, deep within, that I am here on Earth to seek something more profound. To explore mountains that touch the sky, bathe in the vastness of the ocean's embrace, and witness the celestial ballet of stars. I will not limit myself to idolizing mere mortal beings, nor waste my time in idle gossip. I choose to dive deep into the profound meaning of my existence, to understand the purpose set forth by the divine. – Yvonne Padmos	added by Freelancer 2 months ago
The living standard by which a person uses to measure their mortal life is the one which will be used to reward them in their afterlife – James Anthony Kenny	added by PolarPaddy 11 months ago
Regrets are mortal wounds – Dianne Marie Teresa Cole	added by 331king 1 year ago
(c)(p) PEOPLE LOVE TO ASK-WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THIS QUESTION OF MORTALITY SEEMS SO PREVALENT IN THESE LATTER DAYS. SO I ASK-WHAT IS DYING? ITS NOTHING MORE THAN JUST LEAVING AN EMPTY SPACE-WHICH MAY/MAY NOT BE FILLED, EVER. THERE IS A VOID WHICH FOLLOWS EVERY BEING. ITS THE ABSENCE OF YOUR BEING-NOT BEING HERE-IN THE PASSAGE OF TIME. IT BECOMES THE ABSENCE OF TIME ITSELF WHICH NO MORTAL HAS CONTROL OVER. – RAS CARDO REGGAE**	added by jahmantafari1 2 years ago
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar	added by subodhchakranarayan1 3 years ago
( T) he Trump Administration shouldn't decide which workers will be safe and which workers will be in mortal danger. – Alma Adams	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Isms and beliefs are the mortal enemies of truth and knowledge. – Brian Deschanel	added by Londoner0870 5 years ago
I am a mortal really, I could die at any time. – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan	Found on CNN 7 years ago
David, you were mortal, but your potential was superhuman and your remarkable music is living on. – David Bowie	Found on CNN 8 years ago
People assume all their health information is covered by HIPAA and that's just not true, wellness programs are on the border. Some are and some aren't. How can a mere mortal tell? A lot of information can escape into the great American marketing machine, which is desperate to get information on a person's health. – Robert Gellman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Now let me just say this: ISIS in Syria, (Syrian President Bashar el) Assad in Syria, Assad and ISIS are mortal enemies. We go in to fight ISIS. Why aren't we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants? – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Labor Party is in danger more mortal today than at any point in the over 100 years of its existence. in terms of foreign policy, and domestic and economic policy, Jeremy Corbyn is ideologically opposed to what the United States has come to represent in the world in foreign policy and economic terms. – Dan Hodges	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I have watched the ways of the world. She makes promises like a dream and her treasures are an alluring mirage. Humanity cling desperately to mortal life in order to gratified this dream and its treasures. This I have seen to be the root of human suffering. – Amenorhu kwaku	added by Amenorhu Kwaku 8 years ago
Murray is most certainly a threat to go very deep and, if the draw breaks in his favor, a final is attainable, once you reach the final, anything goes -- especially now that Nadal is playing like a mortal on the clay again. – Jim Courier	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is, in short, more disposable than the mere mortal blockbusters it was designed to outpace, this should defy Marvel Studios mathematics. How can a movie with more stuff than its predecessors be less fun? – Andrew Lapin of NPR	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Everybody fails a genetic test, there's always something wrong. You're mortal. You won't pass. – Art Caplan	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It was absolutely impossible to identify these mortal remains through any other means. – Kathryne Bomberger	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Unfortunately, we find systems of education today which have departed so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one's ignorance. – George Spencer-Brown	added by anonymous 9 years ago
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us. – Alexander Herzen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity. – George Sand	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. – Heraclitus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children. – Francis de Sales	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power. – Eugène Delacroix	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. – Edith Wharton	added by anonymous 10 years ago

I may feel like an alien in this city's rush, where buildings replace nature's touch, and bars echo louder than the stars' symphony. But I know, deep within, that I am here on Earth to seek something more profound. To explore mountains that touch the sky, bathe in the vastness of the ocean's embrace, and witness the celestial ballet of stars. I will not limit myself to idolizing mere mortal beings, nor waste my time in idle gossip. I choose to dive deep into the profound meaning of my existence, to understand the purpose set forth by the divine.

– Yvonne Padmos

added by Freelancer
2 months ago

The living standard by which a person uses to measure their mortal life is the one which will be used to reward them in their afterlife

– James Anthony Kenny

added by PolarPaddy
11 months ago

Regrets are mortal wounds

– Dianne Marie Teresa Cole

added by 331king
1 year ago

**(c)(p) PEOPLE LOVE TO ASK-WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THIS QUESTION OF MORTALITY SEEMS SO PREVALENT IN THESE LATTER DAYS. SO I ASK-WHAT IS DYING? ITS NOTHING MORE THAN JUST LEAVING AN EMPTY SPACE-WHICH MAY/MAY NOT BE FILLED, EVER. THERE IS A VOID WHICH FOLLOWS EVERY BEING. ITS THE ABSENCE OF YOUR BEING-NOT BEING HERE-IN THE PASSAGE OF TIME. IT BECOMES THE ABSENCE OF TIME ITSELF WHICH NO MORTAL HAS CONTROL OVER.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

– Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

added by subodhchakranarayan1
3 years ago

( T) he Trump Administration shouldn't decide which workers will be safe and which workers will be in mortal danger.

– Alma Adams

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Isms and beliefs are the mortal enemies of truth and knowledge.

– Brian Deschanel

added by Londoner0870
5 years ago

I am a mortal really, I could die at any time.

– Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Found on CNN
7 years ago

David, you were mortal, but your potential was superhuman and your remarkable music is living on.

– David Bowie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People assume all their health information is covered by HIPAA and that's just not true, wellness programs are on the border. Some are and some aren't. How can a mere mortal tell? A lot of information can escape into the great American marketing machine, which is desperate to get information on a person's health.

– Robert Gellman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Now let me just say this: ISIS in Syria, (Syrian President Bashar el) Assad in Syria, Assad and ISIS are mortal enemies. We go in to fight ISIS. Why aren't we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants?

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Labor Party is in danger more mortal today than at any point in the over 100 years of its existence. in terms of foreign policy, and domestic and economic policy, Jeremy Corbyn is ideologically opposed to what the United States has come to represent in the world in foreign policy and economic terms.

– Dan Hodges

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I have watched the ways of the world. She makes promises like a dream and her treasures are an alluring mirage. Humanity cling desperately to mortal life in order to gratified this dream and its treasures. This I have seen to be the root of human suffering.

– Amenorhu kwaku

added by Amenorhu Kwaku
8 years ago

Murray is most certainly a threat to go very deep and, if the draw breaks in his favor, a final is attainable, once you reach the final, anything goes -- especially now that Nadal is playing like a mortal on the clay again.

– Jim Courier

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is, in short, more disposable than the mere mortal blockbusters it was designed to outpace, this should defy Marvel Studios mathematics. How can a movie with more stuff than its predecessors be less fun?

– Andrew Lapin of NPR

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Everybody fails a genetic test, there's always something wrong. You're mortal. You won't pass.

– Art Caplan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It was absolutely impossible to identify these mortal remains through any other means.

– Kathryne Bomberger

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unfortunately, we find systems of education today which have departed so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one's ignorance.

– George Spencer-Brown

added by anonymous
9 years ago

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

– Alexander Herzen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

– George Sand

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

– Heraclitus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

– Francis de Sales

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

– Eugène Delacroix

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

– Edith Wharton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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