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He denounces his status as a mortal being and goes on to encourage whoever’s listening to do the same if that’s what they want to do.

From Washington Post Jul. 27, 2021

Bohm was desperate to know, to discover the secret of everything, but he knew it wasn’t attainable, not for any mortal being.

From Scientific American Jul. 28, 2018

Rather the open, clear, knife-through-butter pain that comes from a mortal being who eventually will lose all and yet who cares.

From Time Magazine Archive

We must remember that even the Pope is just another mortal being.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth, On the last verge of mortal being stand, Close to the realms where angels have their birth, Just on the boundaries of the spirit-land!

From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood




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