Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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.
Orlando Bloom
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Edith Piaf
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I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.
Fairuza Balk
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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.
H. G. Wells
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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.
Sam Harris
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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.
Daniel Berrigan
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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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People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
H. R. McMaster
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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
Harold Brodkey
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Omar Khayyam
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
Caitlin Doughty
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
John Thorn
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How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us.
Elena Ferrante
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.
George Papandreou
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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
Henry Ward Beecher
