Plato Quotes
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Ralph G. Neas
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Harold Brodkey
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields
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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.'
Vincent Bugliosi
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
Eamon de Valera
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh
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London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
Samantha Shannon
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We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
Zig Ziglar
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
Jack Kevorkian
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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
Caitlin Doughty
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A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
Irma S. Rombauer
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Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief-that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never meditated nor intended. So they said to one another:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
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Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?
Orson Scott Card
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My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
Jack London
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In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
Bertrand Russell
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Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally.
Luis Gutierrez
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I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
Marie Antoinette
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The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything.
Claire Trevor
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
Plato