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“The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine…For unto us a child is born, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,…
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“What is it, then, that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does…
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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life.” —Commencement address, Stanford…