Blaise Pascal Quotes
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
Quotes to Explore
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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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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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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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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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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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 think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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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.
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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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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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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
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Actors love to act all those death scenes.
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
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Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
