Irena Sendler Quotes
I still carry the marks on my body of what those 'German supermen' did to me then. I was sentenced to death.
Irena Sendler
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
Fidel Castro
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
Karen Armstrong
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields
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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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An evil life is a kind of death.
Ovid
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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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But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Nastassja Kinski
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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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We reach vague-gesturing hands, we lift our heads,Hear sounds far off,-and dream, with quivering breath,Our curious separate ways through life and death.
Conrad Aiken
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Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come.
Leon Foucault
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My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything about polar bears dying or the death of bees. There were certain things I knew I couldn't go near because they were too devastating. But I don't think until I got cancer did I get it in my body, what was happening to the earth. I finally went: "Oh! Earth! Organism!"
Eve Ensler
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
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We have nothing against the dollar, and I don't think China has anything against it either. But we believe that a modern currency system should be better balanced, so that when one of the currencies is sagging, this should be compensated by other global reserve currencies.
Dmitry Medvedev
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I still carry the marks on my body of what those 'German supermen' did to me then. I was sentenced to death.
Irena Sendler
