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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Ability Aged Any Brilliant Business Death Deny Family Flair Great Great Business Highly His Innovative Jobs Man Marketing Sad Steve Steve Jobs Technician Very Widow Would

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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Approach Certainly Death Mind

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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Consciousness Death Fear Large Large Part Me Never Part Perhaps Played

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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Death Deceiving Fear Inordinate Might Myself Think

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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Topics: About Crime Death India Only Read Sickness Terrorism

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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

~A. R. Rahman

Topics: After Away Belief Change Changed Convert Converted Death Decision Family Father Following Grew Healers Instantaneous Like Lives Mother Our Our Lives Past Patch Religion Rough Saint Spiritual Stronger Through Took Us Washing Years

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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Botox Brain Death Dissolution Fear Flesh Most Our Our World World

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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: All-Powerful Being Book Clever Clues Comforted Death End Enough Find May Neatly Packaged Playing Pleasure Puzzle Reduced Revealed Rules Satisfactory Solution Something Take Through Which Why

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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.

~Aage Bohr

Topics: After Been Completion Connected Copenhagen Death Director Father Fellow First Followed Him Institute Physics Professor Research Since Studies University Until

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I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

~Aaron Huey

Topics: Death Emptiness Imminent Like Mouth Really Taste Tell Think Want You Your

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