Anita Rau Badami Quotes
Such is the power of death - to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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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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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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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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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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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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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
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As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
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A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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The highest expression of all morality is: Be!
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Odds that you will die at some point in your life: 1 in 1. Thus, you might say the greatest, most significant, and universal risk factor in death is being born. This implies that it really isn't very helpful to approach the subject of risk by focusing on how we might die; rather, it's far wise to consider how we should live and what risk we will live with.
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The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.
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My path forward was the opposite of theirs and theirs was the opposite of mine. It distilled itself down until all that was left was the argument. And maybe, lurking just beneath that, the hatred.
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What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.
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Such is the power of death - to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.
