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• Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

  Bill Bradley

  Said, Mark, Exaggeration

  "Amiable Democratic debate may signal endgame of Gore-Bradley contest" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.

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• Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Moving, Body, Life Is

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.

  Andrew Tudor

  War, Class, Battle

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• The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Age

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• Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.

  Guo Moruo

  Heart, Heart Breaking, Decency

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• In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.

  Arlene Dahl

  Dream, Home, Men

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• As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

  Seth

  Business, Organization, Succeed

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• If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

  Virgil

  Race, Arms, Remember

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• Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

  Dianna Agron

  Stress, Downtime, Good Things

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

  Luke Harding

  Two, Citizens, Informers

  Luke Harding (2014). “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man”, p.165, Guardian Faber Publishing

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• The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. And I think that soul doesn't necessarily die after we're dead and maybe there's a sense of sometimes we know more than we think we know about our lives and our demise.

  Kathy Eldon

  Thinking, Soul, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Space, Void, Delusion

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• In my opinion, this vicious circle will be broken by history itself. Because sticking to the current form of governance, which is to say guaranteeing the survival of [Vladimir] Putin's regime, will necessarily lead to the demise of Russia within its present borders.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Circles, Broken

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

  Pythagoras

  Reason, Immortal, Mortals

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• Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

  Robert Smith

  Pushing It, Accepted, Accepting

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• I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Plot, Way, Reputation

  "Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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• If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

  John Woolman

  Love, Happiness, Children

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude by William Penn”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  Zebulon Pike

  Father, War, Should

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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• National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in May 1981, then his 'Evil Empire' speech of March 1983 - who most eloquently declared communism's imminent demise. Reagan was right. And even Soviet officials attribute Ronald Reagan's rhetoric and foreign policy to bringing down that 'evil empire.' By Christmas Day, 1990, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Liberals wished it were other things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Usa, Evil

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• There is a moment in every relationship when one of the parties senses its imminent demise. There's a moment of incredible clarity when your stomach drops with a heavy sense of dread, and you feel like control is slipping through your fingertips even as you try to hold on.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Party, Trying, Slipping

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• I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

  Mort Walker

  Stars, Stripes

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• Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Men, Ideas, Needs

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• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Science, Technology, Men

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• I intend to live forever, or die trying.

  Groucho Marx

  Death, Funny Life, Forever

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• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Humble, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.180, Vintage

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