Chief Seattle Quotes
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The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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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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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
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Like acting, undercover detective work requires a lot of performance. There's just more pressure because it's life-or-death situations.
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And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
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This is a truly historic day for Europe and for the whole of the international community.
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Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.
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I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves. s
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There is no death, only a change of worlds.
