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When death finds you, may it find you alive.

"Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." Rudyard Kipling

“Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.” Rudyard Kipling

“We with our lives are like islands in the sea… The islands also hang together through the ocean’s bottom.” William James