Elizabeth Chase Allen Quotes
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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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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
Jack Ma
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
Viggo Mortensen
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The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
N. T. Wright
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Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.
Walter Raleigh
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
A. J. Liebling
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'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'
Vernor Vinge
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He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!’
P. G. Wodehouse
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope
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Saints do not die. It is their lot, To die while on this earth to all that God is not.
Angelus Silesius
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The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
Marcus Aurelius
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There is only one dream worth having...to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.
Arundhati Roy
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It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morningWhen the light drips through the shutters like the dew,I arise, I face the sunrise,And do the things my fathers learned to do.Stars in the purple dusk above the rooftopsPale in a saffron mist and seem to die,And I myself on a swiftly tilting planetStand before a glass and tie my tie.
Conrad Aiken
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
Karel Capek
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I am always trying to find how to get the message through. In Munich we custom-made five thousand backpacks like the ones of those students who died in Sichuan to construct a simple sentence spoken by the mother of a dead student. It was: 'She has been happily living in this world for seven years.'
Ai Weiwei
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Garry Wills
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We do not die with those we mourn.
Elizabeth Chase Allen