William Broyles, Jr. Quotes
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
William Broyles, Jr.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor Hugo
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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!
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.
Venus Williams
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
J. J. Abrams
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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
Patricia Cornwell
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Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell
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In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself. (p.130)
Cormac McCarthy
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..the function of art work is.. ..the renewal of memories of moments of perfection.
Agnes Martin
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It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.
Dawn Olivieri
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Me personally, I'm always going to lead by example first. But there are moments where I need to use my voice and go up to a guy and get my message across.
Blake Griffin
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When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
George Sewell
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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
Gabe Newell
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With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
Ken Follett
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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
Oscar Wilde
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I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.
Clemence Poesy
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War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
William Broyles, Jr.
