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• We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trying, Facts, Opinion

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

  Joseph Addison

  Hope, Distance, Lying

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.67

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• Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Lying, Lost

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Cato. Dialogue on medals. Essay on Virgil's Georgies. Poemata. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond; an opera. Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus”, p.57

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• I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.

  Joseph Addison

  Christian, May

  Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan (1859). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison, Gay's Fables, and Somerville's Chase: With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations”, p.29

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• See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

  Woody Allen

  Women, Self, Crash

  "Husbands and Wives". www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

  Mark Twain

  Done, Violent, Interest

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

  Charles Lamb

  Friends, Party, Going Away

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.196

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• Oh Earth, you gave me all I have,      I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return -      Except my body after I die?

  Sara Teasdale

  Love You, Giving, Body

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.102, Рипол Классик

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• I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

  Arnold Palmer

  Cancer, Fighting, Thinking

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• Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Tears, Dew

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.55

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• There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Past, Desire

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• If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

  Ricky Gervais

  Come Up, Best Things, Ifs

  2003 On his character in the television series The Office. Quoted in the Observer, 14 Dec.

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• To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.

  Plutarch

  Fighting, Giving, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.221

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• Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

  Plutarch

  Men, Good Man, Battle

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Lives and Writings”

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• In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Reflection, Self, Suffering

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.247, Transaction Publishers

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• The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.

  Andre Malraux

  Christian, Art, Men

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter VI, 1953.

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• A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle, the total golden tender presence of God everywhere, a pond over there, a beautiful field there, and some hills for people who like to hike, and this expansiveness in every direction of sky and light and physical beauty. And there is this section separated from the rest; it has beautiful high walls. The man who's just come to heaven says, "What's over there?" The angel says, "That's for the fundamentalists. They don't consider it heaven if anyone else got in.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Sweet, Wall

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• Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

  Tobias Smollett

  War, Shots, One Time

  Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson (1820). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: The adventures of Peregrine Pickle, pt. 2. Plays and poems”, p.495

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• Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

  Frank Zappa

  Shoes, Pairs, Pair Of Shoes

  Song: Beauty Knows No Pain, Album: You Are What You Is

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• If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Lying, Fall, Fire

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The King's Tragedy James I. Of Scots.—20th February 1437”

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• The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

  Samuel Richardson

  Persons

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

  Jon Stewart

  Smart, People, Inspire

  "Mr. Obama Goes to Washington" by David Sirota, www.thenation.com. June 08, 2006.

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• You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

  Andy Grove

  Two, Choices, World

  "High output management". Book by Andrew Grove, p. 229, 1995.

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• The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Opinion, Language, Hard

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• As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the 'veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.

  John A. Macdonald

  Mean, People, Effort

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