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The unequal distribution of wealth and honor, capacity, pleasure, and opportunity, which makes life so cruel and inexplicable a tragedy, ceases in the realms of Death.
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Adlai Stevenson
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Stevenson reflects on the harsh realities of life and death, emphasizing the equality found in mortality.
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