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“Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate.”

Feels May Poor Fate Subjects Dying Gratitude Guilty Primaries Impulse Hardship Bless Sensations Loved Ones Darling Embarrassment God Bless Console Unspeakable Visitation

Book:East Side Story: A Novel

Source: East Side Story: A Novel

“Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality is if I didn't take them you would never see me as I want to be seen. I'm a difficult subject and my greatest fear is dying and someone finding my phone and the hundreds upon hundreds of selfies.”

People Ifs Want Reality Fun Difficult Subjects Dying Findings Phones Here I Am Greatest Fear Difficult Subjects

Author:Sara Quin

“Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case.”

Littles Country Care Can Do Lines Cases Too Much Impossible Subjects Dying Draws Miracle Medicine Patient Ill Illness Medical Debate Health Care Broads

Author:Lisa Belkin

“The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular arenas. Anxiety over whether or not the family as a basic social institution is dying has diminished. In its stead has emerged a fairly broad consensus around the position that the family is "here to stay," but that it certainly is changing.”

Writing Social Change Subjects Dying Position Anxiety Late Research Institutions Debate Discussion Broads Arena Consensus Social Institutions Research And Writing

Book:Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life

Source: Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life

“In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.”

Thinking Writing Pieces Subjects Dying Getting Old Variation Fear Of Dying

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)