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• Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.

  Isaac R. Trimble

  War, Civil War, Majors

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• Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

  Theophile Gautier

  Desert, Body, Lice

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• Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Taken, Light, Doors

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• God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sea, Alive, Breathe

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• Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

  John Stott

  Christian, Character, Understanding

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Acts”, p.27, InterVarsity Press

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• As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

  John Stott

  Church, Body, Spirit

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Acts”, p.27, InterVarsity Press

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• Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

  John Galsworthy

  Memories, Deeds

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.2703, Delphi Classics

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• When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is
  just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin to die.
  And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about
  justice.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Courage, Talking, Justice

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Dec 01, 2010

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• All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.

  James Connolly

  Eye, Men, Hands

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Animal, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi

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• And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Democracies Have, Self

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• People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out. . . you always knew when you made a decision against life. The door clicked and you were safe inside-safe and dead.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Eye, Doors, Fire

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• When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

  Shane Smith

  Beautiful, Want, Live Fast

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• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  Vance Havner

  Kings, Heart, Dust

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.63, Solid Christian Books

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• It’s easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.

  Michael L. Brown

  Easier, Cool Down, Warm

  Michael L. Brown (2012). “Whatever Happened to the Power of God? & It's Time to Rock the Boat”, p.201, Destiny Image Publishers

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• But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

  Cal Thomas

  Heart, Soul, Prosperity

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• Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

  Edvard Munch

  Soul, Trying, Research

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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• If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.

  Asger Jorn

  Mind, Orchestra, Nerves

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

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• A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

  William De Morgan

  Squares, Ghost, Fairs

  William Frend De Morgan (1906). “Joseph Vance: An Ill-written Autobiography”, H. Frowde

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• Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, War, Smell

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• Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.

  Antony Sher

  Party, Silly, Opposites

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• If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Believe, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

  Bernard Ramm

  Tombstone, Cutting, Funeral

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• If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Ifs

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.662

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• There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.

  Evan Esar

  Dignity

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