Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
A. N. Wilson
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
Viggo Mortensen
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
Barry Larkin
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
Mal Peet
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
Abraham Verghese
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
Tea Obreht
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Saint Ambrose
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh
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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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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Harold Kushner
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh
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My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.
Larry King
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.
Louie Schwartzberg
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When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.
Kent Beck
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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
Thomas Carlyle