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    “Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it.”
    —John Gilling, British screenwriter. Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing)

    “The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

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    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)