Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship 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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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 is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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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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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.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
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I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
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To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
