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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have
it your way.'
C. S. LewisThe fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no
risk of accident for someone who's dead.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was
elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

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From fairest creatures we desire increase,

That thereby beauty's rose might never die,

But as the riper should by time decease,

His tender heir might bear his memory:

But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,

Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,

Making a famine where abundance lies,

Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:

Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,

And only herald to the gaudy spring,

Within thine own bud buriest thy content,

And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:

  Pity the world, or else this glutton be,

  To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

 	--William Shakespeare