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• Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

  Ben Casnocha

  Men, Talking, Giving

  "My start-up life". Book by en Casnocha, abcnews.go.com. 2007.

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• I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Thinking, People, Relax

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Flames, Hatred

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• Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Ruined, Including

  Bill Johnson (2016). “God is Good: He's Better Than You Think”, p.103, Destiny Image Publishers

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• If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

  Lu Xun

  Men, Causes, Paper

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• A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

  Thomas Lynch

  Needs, Good Fun

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• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

  Andrew Solomon

  Knowing, Space, Race

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• Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Sorrow, Battle

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• An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

  Mary Deasy

  Mary Deasy (1948). “The Hour of Spring”

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• More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

  Geoffrey Rush

  People, Eulogy, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Women, People, Sometimes

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• I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

  Martin Parr

  Who I Am, People, Cameras

  "As we live and breathe: your photos of funerals and smoking". Interview with Theresa Malone, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2013.

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• By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

  Peter York

  Real, Class, Hair

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• Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Thinking, Giving

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

  David Berg

  Sorrow, Heavenly

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• I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.

  Zach Braff

  Memories, Home, Sadness

  "'Scrubs' star writes what he knows" by Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. August 16, 2004.

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• Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

  Daniel Levitin

  Mother, Prayer, War

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.6, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.

  John Travolta

  College, Texas, Two

  Source: movies.about.com

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• As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

  Horace

  Sick, Mind, Vices

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 242-43, Satires, I. 4. 126, 1922.

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• To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.

  Spike Milligan

  Singing, Want, Firsts

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• The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.

  Peggy Noonan

  Faces, Nervous, Easy

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

  Karl Shapiro

  Devil, Finals, Flags

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• Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Daughter, Home, Men

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• About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

  Ken Loach

  Accepting, Wanted

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• Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Heaven, Dying

  'Epitaph on an Infant' (1794)

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