Christian de Duve Quotes
It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
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Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
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Some actors are like flowers basking in the sun - they love the attention, and the fans get what they want. With me it's different. I know the fans aren't getting what they want. And I'm certainly not getting what I want.
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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
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The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
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Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.
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Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.
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I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.
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I am proud to wear the name Le Pen.
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It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.
