African Spir Quotes
See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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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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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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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.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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Flowers are happy things.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
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What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.
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Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
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My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
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Is there life before death? - that is the question!
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For instance, I have never believed that Jesus Christ would approve either abortions or the death penalty, but I obeyed such Supreme Court decisions to the best of my ability, at the same time attempting to minimize what I considered to be their adverse impact.
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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.
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When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.
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I'm just trying to do my best in the circumstances and am very happy for everyone else to do the same so I don't cultivate enemies.
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All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.
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The universe has resources of death which we have barely begun to pick at
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Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
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See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.
