“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.”
— Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
Category: death
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Category: death
Doing linear scans over an associative array
“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”
— Larry Wall
Author: Larry Wall
Category: death
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If your best friend has stolen your
“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.”
— Ben Kingsley
Author: Ben Kingsley
Category: death
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Life itself is but the shadow of
“Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”
— Thomas Browne
Author: Thomas Browne
Category: death
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The dead cannot cry out for justice.
“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Category: death
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There is no easy walk to freedom
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”
— Nelson Mandela
Author: Nelson Mandela
Category: death
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting
“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.”
— Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
Category: death
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Life is better than death, I believe,
“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
Category: death
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The idea is to die young as
“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”
— Ashley Montagu
Author: Ashley Montagu
Category: death
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In order to go on living one
“In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.”
— Hannah Arendt
Author: Hannah Arendt
Category: death
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The experiences associated with death were seen
“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”
— Stanislav Grof
Author: Stanislav Grof
Category: death
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