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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
"The intelligent man who is proud of his own intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large prison cell."
Simone Weil
"It matters little if we have the most beautiful feelings, if we are not able to communicate them."
Stephan Zweig
"Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay."
Rudyard Kipling
Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you can't have what you love, Love what you have.
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I dont know the key to success ,but the key to failure is trying to please every body.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
Charlie Chaplin
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there ia anything you can do. think up something appropriate and do it.
"Edgar Watson Howe"
Let's live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows
Hellen Keller
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality
Anonymous
Happiness is found in DOING not merely in POSSESSING
Anonymous
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it
"Learn From yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
'Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.'
- Mahatma Gandhi
'Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.'
- Abraham Lincoln
'Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up'.
- Thomas A. Edison
"We cannot learn without pain."
-Aristotle
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't you're right"
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da Vinci
One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
_Japanese Proverb_
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
_William Hazlitt_
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
_Don Herlod_
"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it."
Ivan Panin
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
-- Malcolm Forbes -
"The important thing is not to stop questioning"
Albert Einstein: Inspirational and Motivational
Knowledge is power
"The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him."
Voltaire
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
Mario Andretti
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
Henry David Thoreau
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Mahatma Gandhi
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work.
Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.
-- Thomas Robert Gaines
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
Ingrid Bergman 1917-1982
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
Arthur Schopenhaue
1. Giving up smoking is easy...I've done it hundreds of times.
Mark Twain
2. I do not know the "American gentleman", God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens
3. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right."
Ashleigh Brilliant
4. Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
5. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
Hi, dear friends
Please, think about this quotation from Sophocles. Isn't it great? I like him
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth
(Excerpt from Oedipus Rex)
Sophocles' other quotations:
“Time alone can prove a just man just, though you can know a bad man in a day.”
Death is not the greatest of ills; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
“None love the messenger who brings bad news.”
“To err from the right path is common to mankind.”
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced
I depict men as they ought to be, but Euripides portrays them as they are.
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"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."
Yogi Berra
"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."
Samuel Goldwyn
I am free of all prejudices & discrimination. I hate everyone equally.
W.C. Fields
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It's not fair that some men should be happier than others.
The statistics on sanity are that one of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said:The best among you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it.Translation
Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said: "Whoever reads a letter from the Book of Allah, he will have a reward. And that reward will be multiplied by ten. I am not saying that "Alif, Laam, Meem" is a letter, rather I am saying that "Alif" is a letter, "laam" is a letter and "meem" is a letter."
The Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said: "Verily the one who recites the Qur'an beautifully, smoothly, and precisely, he will be in the company of the noble and obedient angels. And as for the one who recites with difficulty, stammering or stumbling through its verses (because he doesn't know how to read it but is trying to), then he will have TWICE that reward."
The less your wealth, the less you will be called to account for.
The most grateful of people to Allaah are those who are most grateful to other people.
Stay with her (the mother), for Paradise is under her feet.
Always remember the destroyer of joy (physical pleasure): death.
The best type of jihaad is the jihaad of the one who strives against his own self (jihaad al-nafs) for the sake of Allaah.
The most beloved of food to Allaah is that which is touched by many hands (i.e., shared among many people).
The worst thief among people is the one who steals from his prayer, by not doing rukoo' and sujood properly.
The most beloved of people to Allaah are those who have the best attitudes.
If you ask Allaah for anything, then ask Him for al-Firdaws (the highest level of Paradise).
Do not betray the one who betrays you.
If you commit a sin, say Astaghfir-Allaah (I ask Allaah for forgiveness) .
Fear Allaah wherever you may be.
Keep saying `Yaa Dhaa'l-jalaali wa'l-ikraam (O Possessor of Glory and Honour)'" i.e., keep repeating it persistently.
The most beloved of deeds to Allaah is the one that is continuous, even if it is little.
If one with whose religion and character you are pleased comes to you (to seek your daughter's hand in marriage), then marry (your daughter) to him.
The one who points the way to good deeds is like the one who does them.
The best of sadaqah (charity) is that given by one who has little.
If Allaah wills good to the people of a household, He guides them to be gentle.
The most beloved of people to Allaah is the one who is most helpful.
The most helpless of people are those who cannot make du'aa'.
If your good deeds please you and your bad deeds upset you, then you are a mu'min (believer).
The upper hand (the one that gives) is better than the lower hand (the one that takes).
If some disaster befalls you, say, Innaa Lillaahi wa innaa ilayhi raaji'oon (Truly, to Allaah we belong and truly, to Him we shall return).
Renounce pleasure in worldly things and Allaah will love you. Show disinterest in what people have and people will love you.
Protect the stomach and what goes into it.
Feed the poor and pat the head of the orphan (i.e., show compassion).
Make things easy for people, not difficult.
Seek rizq (provision) by giving charity
If Allaah sends you some provision without you looking forward to it or asking others for it, then take it.
The most miserly of people are those who are stingy with their salaams (i.e., do not greet others).
Do not judge between people when you are angry.
Cheer people up, do not put them off.
Most of the sins committed by the son of Adam are sins of the tongue.
Make the most of your life before your death. Make the most of your health before your sickness. Make the most of your free time before you become busy. Make the most of your wealth before you become poor. Make the most of your youth before you become old.
(Take care of) your mother, then your mother, then your mother, then your father, then other relatives in order of closeness.
Mix with people with a good attitude.
Fear the prayer of the oppressed.
Give back the things you have been entrusted with to the person who entrusted them to you.
If Allaah gives you wealth, let the blessing of Allaah be seen on you.
Give food to others and speak good.
When any one of you meets his brother, let him greet him with salaam.
Pray for Allaah to keep you safe and sound.
Pray to Allaah and be confident of a response.
Do not laugh too much, for excessive laughter deadens the heart.
Read the Qur'aan, for it will come and intercede for its readers on the Day of Resurrection.
Make sure your food is good (halaal and bought with halaal earnings), and you will be one whose prayers are answered.
Control your tongue.
Fear Allaah and treat all your children fairly.
If you judge (between people), then judge fairly.
The most beloved deed to Allaah is making a Muslim happy.
Whoever restrains his anger, Allaah will conceal his faults.
Give to the one who denied you.
If you enter a house, greet the inhabitants with salaam.
The less your wealth, the less you will be called to account for
All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure
.Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed
.I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt
.It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability
Flower A. Newhouse
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)l
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."l
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)l
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...l
Author: George Carlin
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary
Author: Ashleigh (Ellwood) Brilliant
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great"l
Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have"l
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)l
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"l
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)l
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed"l
George Burns (1896-1996)l
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something"l
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)l
yo fellas
:here i want to place the words of patriarch about Napoleon Bonaparte
.'There was an eye to see in this man, and a soul to dare and do. He rose naturally to be King
.All men saw that he was such
Thomas Carlyle-
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'Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages, What feats he did that day…'
William Shakespeare-
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung
- Voltaire (1694-1778)l
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work
- Robert Orben
"Men have become the tools of their tools."l
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)l
" The best way to predict the future is to invent it."l
- Alan Kay
Excuses are most easy to manufacture, but most difficult to sell."
- Anonymous
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
Anonymous
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.l
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)l
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."l
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)l
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."l
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)l
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."l
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)l
"If you are going through hell, keep going."l
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)l
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."l
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)l
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."l
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)l
"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required."l
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)l
A single death is a tragedy,
a million deaths is a statistic
- Joseph Stalin
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Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean
- Unknown
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Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off
until further notice
- Unknown
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity
- Horace Mann
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Either this man is dead
or my watch has stopped
- Groucho Marx
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Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice
- Robert Frost
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He's dead, Jim
- Leonard McCoy
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation
- Hermann Hesse
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He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again
- William Shakespeare
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I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it, Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice.
- Terry Pratchett
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known
- Charles Dickens
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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens
- Woody Allen
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It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long
- Unknown
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I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror
like his passengers
- Jim Harkins
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Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god
- Jean Rostand
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Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
- Mark Twain
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Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so
- Bertrand Russell
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The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be
when you kill them
- William Clayton
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What happens if you get scared
half to death twice?
- Unknown
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When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun
- William Shakespeare
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When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite
- Winston Churchill
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice
- old Indian Proverb
(from MrTweeky's Address)
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He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead
- Unknown
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It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees
- Emiliano Zapata
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A man who won't die for something
is not fit to live
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The gods conceal from men the happiness
of death, that they may endure life
- Lucan
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Death, the last sleep?
No the final awakening
- Walter Scott
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I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain
- Joyce Cary
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It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death
- Anaxandrides
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There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny
- Unknown
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter
- Winston Churchill
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Do not seek death.
Death will find you.
But seek the road which
makes death a fulfillment
- Dag Hammarskjöld
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death
- David Sarnoff
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One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever been before
- Last words Phoebe Care
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What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense
- Last words Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have
- Last words Leonardo da Vinci
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I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered
- Last words Sir Issac Newton
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I am still progressing
- Last words Pierre Auguste Renoir
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived
- George S. Patton, Jr.
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Achieving life is not the
equivalent of avoiding death
- Ayn Rand
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived
- Henry David Thoreau
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On a tombstone:
I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK
- Tony Campolo
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So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death
- Unknown
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It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia
- Frank Zappa
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It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time
- Ecclesiastes 7:3
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The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them
- Joseph Addison
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn
- Anouk Aimée
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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as
easily lying down
- Woody Allen
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage
- Jean Anouilh
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It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier
- Thomas Arnold
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Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death
- Betty Bender
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Life without a friend is death without a witness
- Eugene Benge
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow
- Charles Hendrickson Brower
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Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live
- Sir Thomas Browne
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means
- Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it
- Voltaire
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
- Woody Allen
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome
- Isaac Asimov
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Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those
little slices of death...
- Longfellow
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan
- Martin Luther King, Jr
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death
- Thomas Paine
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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,
So. What did you think?
- Steven Wright
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In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be
condemned to death
- Albert Camus
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Death is life's way of telling you
you've been fired
- R. Geis
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In this world, nothing is certain
but death and taxes
- Benjamin Franklin
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As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against
death ignoring heaven
- Doug Horton
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death
- H. H. Munro
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I am become death, shatterer of worlds
- Robert J. Oppenheimer
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part
- George Bernard Shaw
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Death and taxes are both certain...
but death isn't annual
- Unknown
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Death to all fanatics
- Unknown
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You can kill a man but
you can't kill an idea
- Medgar Evers
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box
- Unknown
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Suicide would be my way of
telling God that I quit
- Tom Kleffman
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The cost of living
is dying, everybody pays
- Unknown
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O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?
Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs,
spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?
Fare thee well
- Mark Antony to Caesar's fallen body
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Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love
- Khalil Gibran
(from muneran2)
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I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain
نقل قول:
The cost of living is dying, everybody pays
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Death, the last sleep? No, the final awakening
Very good but It was better if the title was in English too