Gene Wolfe Quotes
The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.
Gene Wolfe
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
Pat Buchanan
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
Quvenzhane Wallis
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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
Earl Warren
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
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Faith is a powerful thing to have in your repertory. ... Certainly, I'd felt despair, sometimes so much that I thought it would be easier to die. But my family and my faith have sustained me until, when I least expected it, life picked me up again.
Debbie Reynolds
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(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
Vin Scully
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
Yoko Ono
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I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.
John Stuart Mill
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Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.
Gene Wolfe
