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be after

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have the will and intention to carry out some action

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One can be an atheist only until their death. After it, everyone will become believers. However, the choice of what will be after death must be made now and as soon as possible. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it? Sojourner Truth

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i. e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins. Paracelsus

(There will be) No manifestation but after Allah's permission, and that will be after the passing of a long term, the hardening of the hearts, and the filling of the Earth with tyranny. Muhammad al-Mahdi

But,' I [Dmitri Karamazov] asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

With violets and goats' milk anoint your face, and every king's son in the world will be after you. Scottish Gaelic Proverb

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