Will Durant Quotes
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.
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'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'
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Besteht das Original nicht um dessentwillen, wie ließe sich dann die Übersetzung aus dieser Beziehung verstehen?
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He was going to die. His mind flinched back in horror from that, but it was still there, grinning, implacable. His body would rot under the ground, while delicious things were still happening in the sunlight.
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Grimaldi and a sixteen-year-old girl still at Hollywood High. He was a good journalist but he was going to die soon. At fifty he was on a bottle and a half of Californian brandy a day and four packs of Lucky Strike. His clothes smelt as though they were seeped in tobacco juice. His white forlock was stained with it...
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Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.
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The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.
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John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
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There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.
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Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.
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You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.
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Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom
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Lets be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend to get on with them!
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
