John Alec Baker Quotes
Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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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!
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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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.
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Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.
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Visca Barcelona, Visca Catalunya and Visca Argentina, motherfuckers!
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Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
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I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
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I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.
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Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.
