Joseph Hall Quotes
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen
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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.
Ida B. Wells
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
Gary Krist
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
Tea Obreht
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Jack Kevorkian
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My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
Jai Rodriguez
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Plato
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I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out.
Edith Grossman
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When you’ve parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you’ve had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me?
Mario Cuomo
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
Viggo Mortensen
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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall
