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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
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Immortality
Eternal
Many
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Life
People
Yearn

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