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In the year 1890, a traveling peddler named Jared Garrity arrives in the little recently renamed town of Happiness, Arizona, offering to bring the townsfolk's dead back from Boot Hill. Initially, they do not believe him, but, when he appears to resurrect a dead dog struck by a traveler's horse-drawn wagon, they believe him.
"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." [40] — William James, American philosopher and psychologist (26 August 1910) The funeral of Jorge Chávez in Paris. "Higher. Always higher." [10] [21] ("Arriba. Siempre arriba.")
Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions involving the same person or deity returning to another body. The disappearance of a body is another similar but distinct belief in some religions.
The Empire Strikes Back: 1980 Greed is good. [1] [4] The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Gordon Gekko: Michael Douglas: Wall Street: 1987 If you build it, they will come. [1] [5] If you build it, he will come. Shoeless Joe Jackson; also a disembodied voice Ray Liotta: Field of Dreams: 1989
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
On the wrong side of the grass Dead Euphemistic slang Refers to the practice of burying the dead. Such individuals are below the grass as opposed to above it, hence being on the "wrong side". One's hour has come [1] About to die Literary: One's number is up [1] One is going to die Slang: Oofed To die Humorous
Roman Krznaric suggests memento mori is an important topic to bring back into our thoughts and belief system; "Philosophers have come up with lots of what I call 'death tasters' – thought experiments for seizing the day." These thought experiments are powerful to get us re-oriented back to death into current awareness and living with spontaneity.
Google: reverse-spelling search engine company name Navi: Ivan Apollo program joke by Virgil Ivan Grissom: proper name [19] Erewhon "nowhere" A utopia and the title of an 1872 novel by Samuel Butler. The digraph <wh> is not reversed. Many names within the book are also ananyms. proper name [5] [20] Erised "desire "