Will Durant Quotes
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
Ian McShane
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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.
Gary Lineker
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Jack Huston
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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.
Maeve Binchy
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I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
J. B. Smoove
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
Kapil Dev
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What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one’s life.
Jack McDevitt
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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.
Damon Knight
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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...
Anthony Burgess
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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.
Anthony Trollope
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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.
Louis Farrakhan
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My trainer was a great guy … who made me want to die for an hour. My character was spending most of his life in a state of hunger, and I wanted to get a sense of that, physically and mentally.
Liam Hemsworth
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Malcolm de Chazal
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Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much.
Ben Jonson
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A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.
Ai Weiwei
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To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
Chaim Potok
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If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.
Richard Smalley
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
Will Durant
