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The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.
Alan Ball
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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
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