Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

We cannot all be masters

William Shakespeare

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Alex Winter

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Tony Benn

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

Judy Biggert

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

Gordon Sinclair

I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

Michael Nutter

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Joseph Joubert

The state was made for man, not man for state.

Albert Einstein

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Madison