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• The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Kings, Wings, Crow

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• The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

  George Jean Nathan

  Flower, Theatre, Doe

  George Jean Nathan (1921). “The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls”

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• Snow has turned the world into a cemetery.
  But the world already was a cemetery
  and the snow has only come to announce it.

  Roberto Juarroz

  Snow, World

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• The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Indispensable, Filled

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• There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

  Beverly Sills

  People, Awful, Skinny

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• The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Home, Feet

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.127, Schocken

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• My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

  Ed Furgol

  Inspirational, Clever, Golf

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• Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

  Tupac Shakur

  Friendship, Losing, Homies

  Song: Me Against The World

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• You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Looks

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Memories, Lying, Grief

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• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Military, Leader, World

  Yitzhak Rabin (1996). “The Rabin Memoirs”, p.423, Univ of California Press

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• I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua ; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Powerful, Fighting, Europe

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Patrick Riley (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

  Phillip Adams

  Civilization, People, Atheism

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• The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

  Emile Zola

  Past, Toes, Illusion

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• Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

  Klaus Kinski

  Hate, People, Driving

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• It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

  John Scalzi

  Missing, Alive, Easier

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.13, Macmillan

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• I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary;
  Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary,
  You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery.

  Killer Mike

  Kings, Rap, Hip Hop

  "Song: "Lie, Cheat, Steal"("Run the Jewels 2")". 2014.

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• Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?

  George Carlin

  Military, America, Soldier

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• I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

  David Rubenstein

  Want, Rich, Persons

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• In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

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• The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Powerful, People

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jun 09, 2016

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• Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

  Zhang Xin

  Support, Entrepreneur, Guy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

  Margot Asquith

  Strong, Thinking, Race

  Margot Asquith (1925). “Places & Persons”

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• I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

  Charles Barkley

  Skeletons, Closets, Whole

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