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• To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.

  Torii Hunter

  Balls, Commit

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• There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

  Allen West

  Simple, Tolerance, Black

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• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  Peter Benchley

  Suicidal, Hopeful, Anticipation

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• Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

  Marc Andreessen

  Example, Borders, Amazon

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• There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

  Auberon Waugh

  Boys, Hands, Long

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• The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.

  Nigel Farage

  Men, Years, Greek

  "On the edge of social breakdown". UK Independence Party Website, May 31, 2012.

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• I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

  Judy Collins

  People, Groups, Connections

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• The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Dream, America, Leader

  Dinesh D'Souza (2014). “America: Imagine a World without Her”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

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• I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

  Keith Emerson

  Suicidal, Men, Lakes

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• Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

  Bayard Rustin

  Fighting, Prejudice, Return

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• Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Choices Made, Long Ago

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Cheney

  Mass Destruction, Organization, Ties

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• I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. As a fourth-degree black-belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and that's something that we should start to implement for a lot of women.

  Nia Sanchez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

  "Questions About Where Miss U.S.A. Really Lives". ABC news, abcnews.go.com. June 14, 2014.

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• What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

  Marina Keegan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Writing

  "Opposite of Loneliness" by Marina Keegan, abcnews.go.com. May 30, 2012.

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• There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

  Edward Abbey

  Alternatives, Circumstances, Sensible

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there are suicides. They're like poems in that respect, suicide notes: nearly everyone tries their hand at them some time, with or without the talent. We all write them in our heads. Usually the note is the thing. You complete it, and then resume your time travel. It is the note and not the life that is cancelled out. Or the other way round. Or death. You never can tell, though, can you, with suicide notes.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Hands, Trying

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• Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.

  Bertie Ahern

  Opportunity, People, Sitting

  "NAMA makes £150m on London deal" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2011.

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• I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

  Mike Tyson

  Fun, Real, Book

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.

  Mike Tyson

  Hero, Heart, White

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• If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.

  Glenn Beck

  Suicidal, Media, Car

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• Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicidal, Next Day, People

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Dies

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.69, Arcade Publishing

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• By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Aberration, Normal, Action

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.

  Desmond Tutu

  Military, Land, Israel

  "Apartheid in the Holy Land". www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

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• One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life', which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

  Frank Darabont

  Christmas, Interesting, Choices

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 28, 2010.

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