Dead Quotes
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Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
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I have made up my mind to take 35 pills this time, and it will be "dead certain." If only he would let someone call.
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I was right." She dropped the sword and grabbed Helen in a hug. Then she started jumping up and down, making Helen jump with her. "You're not dead! This is... You have no idea how happy I am I didn't just kill you!" she squealed.
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The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word funus may be translated as dead body, funeral ceremony, or murder. There was a genuine concern that, if not treated appropriately, the spirits of the dead, or manes, would return to wreak revenge
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...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.
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Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
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Once you're dead, you're made for life.
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Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.
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Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.
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Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.
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Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.
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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
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People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
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Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
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Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.
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Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?
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I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.
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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
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It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.
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Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.
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In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around a team and vaccinated about 100 of them against flu. Six were dead within 24 hours or so and they weren't all old people, one man being in his early twenties. They threw the bodies in trucks to take to the coast where autopsies were done. It appeared they had died from heart attacks.
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I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.
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Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear.
