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• It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

  Homer

  Long, Lasts, Iliad

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• Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

  Alexander Smith

  Style, Literature

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

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• The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Stupidity, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• There is, they say, (and I believe there is),
  A spark within us of th' immortal fire,
  That animates and moulds the grosser frame;
  And when the body sinks, escapes to heaven;
  Its native seat, and mixes with the gods.

  John Armstrong

  Believe, Fire, Heaven

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.111, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• All Gods were immortal.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Political, Atheism

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• Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

  Livy

  Ought, Mortals, Hostility

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• Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Light, Technological Change, Profound

  "Want to impress your friends? Tell them internet growth is sigmoidal, not exponential" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2007.

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• When, as President Joseph F. Smith said, we "catch a spark from the awakened memories of the immortal soul, "let us be quietly grateful. When of great truths we can say "I know," that powerful spiritual witness may also carry with it the sense of our having known before. With rediscovery, we are really saying "I know - again!"

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Memories, Powerful

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• Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!

  Lucretius

  Science, Past, Infinite Time

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves -- for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Beautiful, Knowing, Littles

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

  Blaise Pascal

  Independent, Differences, Decision

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.215

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• Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail,
  Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay;
  Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil
  Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play
  In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
  To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll;
  The temple of the Power whom all obey,
  That is the mark we tend to, for the soul
  Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

  James Gates Percival

  Play, Goal, Car

  James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322

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• Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Reading, Cake, Soul

  Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON (1854). “Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix”, p.7

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• O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!
  O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Sweet, Spring, Dawn

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.164

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• The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Determined, Computer

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• Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

  David Deutsch

  Stars, Optimism, People

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• If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Errors, Soul, Needs

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• Since ancient Time began,
  Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--
  The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,
  Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• A thousand glorious actions that might claim
  Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame,
  Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie,
  And troops of heroes undistinguished die.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, War, Hero

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.189

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• We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Self

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• So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Long, Humanity

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1862). “The Duties of Man”, p.94

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• The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Waiting

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• Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Giving, Answers, World

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• It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence aren't incongruous at all, but rather perfect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Buddhism

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• Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clever, Men, Rome

  "The Napoleon of Notting Hill". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.

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