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• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  Karen Armstrong

  Ego, Losing, Not Interested

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• One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

  Winston Churchill

  Chinese, May, Might

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• Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, . . .

  Betty Eadie

  Death, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Betty J. Eadie (1997). “The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.

  Hilary Duff

  Angel, Thinking, Curiosity

  "Exclusive: Hilary Duff Talks about Elixir". Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Dream, Father, Way

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• They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Wall, Six, Twenties

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• When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

  John Bolton

  Would Be, Classic, Regimes

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• No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

  David Jeremiah

  Inspirational, Death, Christian

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• In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Circles, Sorrow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.710, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.

  Billy Graham

  Trust, Religious, Jesus

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

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• I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife

  Kurt Gödel

  Independent, World, Theology

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• It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Fate, Men, Consolation

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• There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Powerful, Fear

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• I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

  John Green

  Pain, Loss, Thinking

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

  Khalil

  Greed, Trying, Desire

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• Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

  Gore Verbinski

  Different, Life Is, Should

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• Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Strong, Thinking, Doubt

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1996). “Bulletin”

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• The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

  Bill Cosby

  Future, Goal, Domestic Violence

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• We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Want, Path, Persuasion

  "Today" on BBC Radio 4, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2005.

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• We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

  David Amram

  Art, Reading, Museums

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• I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

  James L. Buckley

  Presidential, Campaigns, Ongoing

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• I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Judgment, Protect, Response

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Get Better, Age, Peers

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• I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.

  Michelle Hunziker

  Smell, Mouths, Charming

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