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" He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. "
Horace
World
Been
Birth
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" The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? "
Rush Limbaugh
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Death
Life
" I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. "
Hedy Lamarr
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Fear
Death
" The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me. "
Simon Schama
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" I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. "
Elie Wiesel
Story
Death
Remember
" People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' "
Norman Davies
Death
People
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" People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism. "
Bernard Williams
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" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "
Simon Cowell
Time
Animal
Death
" The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world. "
John Strachan
Lips
World
Death
" The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions. "
Anthony McCarten
Decisions
Life
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" Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death. "
James Forman, Jr.
Human
Death
Crime
" Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. "
Horace
Path
Mind
Life
" 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. "
Michael Sheen
Questions
Life
Death
" I am against the death penalty. "
Andrew Cuomo
Against
Death
Am
" Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity. "
Deepak Chopra
Tradition
Unique
Death
" Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. "
Horace
Word
Escape
Once
" The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life? "
Blase J. Cupich
Death Penalty
Right
Moral
" The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. "
Mark Twain
Been
Exaggerated
Funny
" In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "
Benjamin Franklin
Nothing
Death
Finance
" Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. "
James Hetfield
Some People
People
Others
" I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. "
Mark Twain
Sent
Death
Saying
" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "
D. H. Lawrence
Forgetting
Consciousness
Death
" If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Heard
Death
Somebody
" Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. "
Horace
Serious
Silly
Plans
" But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution. "
Antonin Scalia
Constitution
People
Choice
" Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Dead
Mourn
Die
" I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. "
Alfred Nobel
Promotion
Peace
I Am
" Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God. "
Dayananda Saraswati
Happiness
Pain
Life
" It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. "
Horace
Try
Shame
Moving On
" It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. "
Michael Leunig
You
Yourself
Better
" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "
Horace
Poems
Water
Poetry