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"Usually we say, "Wait until I finish school and get my PhD degree, and then I will be really alive." But when we obtain it, we say, "I have to wait until I have a job in order to be really alive." After the job, we need a car, and after the car, a house. We are not capable of being alive in the present moment. We always postpone being alive to the future, we don't know exactly when."

Abigail Adams after being robbed by highwaymen in England had this to say after hearing the caught robber would be put to death. "Though every robber may deserve death, yet to exalt over the wretched is what our country is not accustomed to. Long may it be free of such villainies and long may it preserve a commiseration for the wretched."

Lewis concluded, “these bear being so hard to die reather intimedates us all; I must confess that I do not like the gentlemen and had reather fight two Indians than one bear.”