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• Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Primitive Man, Vices

  Konrad Lorenz (1966). “On aggressión”

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• My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

  Elizabeth I

  Hate, Wish, Way

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.248, University of Chicago Press

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• Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Fear, Mind, Body

  Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures 493:17 (1875)

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• To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

  Phil Collins

  Firsts, Labels, Records

  "Phil Collins goes "Back" to Motown favorites". Interview with Craig McLean, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2010.

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• The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

  David Byrne

  Records, World, Good Things

  Interview with Anne Pasternak, creativetime.org.

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• The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

  KRS-One

  People, Black, Important

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Country, Children

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mistake, Errors, Truth Is

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• So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are where you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a nation it was honoring the one true God. You won't find it. Let's keep this country alive.

  Louie Gohmert

  Country, Loss, Evil

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• The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  World, Lovers, Khomeini

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• Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Fall, Pride, Leader

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• Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

  Davy Crockett

  People, Heaven, Faults

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106, 1994.

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• Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

  Alan Johnson

  Rumor, May, Coal

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• To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Wisdom, Enemy, Firsts

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• It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Desire, Stories, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.8, North Atlantic Books

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• My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Distance, Leader, Paranoia

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• Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Century, 18th Century, Western

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• Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

  Anne Rice

  Mind, Trying, Answers

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• No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wise, Men, Mortals

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• When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

  Mort Walker

  Stars, Soldier, Black

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• Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much faster than they can be replenished. We are producing wastes much faster than nature's sinks can process them. The growth economy will end. The only questions are when its end will come, and whether humanity will be able to survive its demise.

  John B. Cobb

  Using Resources, Discovery, Humanity

  John B. Cobb (1994). “Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy”

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• A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

  Paracelsus

  Flow, Causes, Life Is

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• Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

  Susan Orlean

  Fate, Decision, Borders

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Phones, Stories, World

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• I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

  Hugh Howey

  Cells, Years, September 11

  Hugh Howey (2017). “Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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