Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
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“She was surprised to be alive. Yet she felt indifferent. If death was the black emptiness from which she had just woken… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
“I will die the way I learned to live. Fully aware. At peace. With a heart so full of love that even… — Krista McGee Copy Share Image
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In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably,… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no matter how much… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“the Christian faith, while wildly misrepresented in so much of American culture, is really about death and resurrection. It’s about how God… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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“None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital-T… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in… — John R. Dunne Copy Share Image
“In patriarchal societies, the conception of life and death is often seen to be linear rather than circular. Because of a societal… — Miriam Robbins Dexter Copy Share Image
“Families were bound by the oyaku-shinju (parent-child death pact). The were obligated to take their own lives and those of their kin… — Ian W. Toll Copy Share Image
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“We should do something,” I said. “Can the something be play blind-guy video games while sitting on the couch?” “Yeah, that’s just… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You can't find love because you think there’s always someone better one swipe away. "You think you’re discerning? You are treating connection… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I first became aware of death when my father held me up to see the view from the top of the Empire… — Chrissi Sepe Copy Share Image
The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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“The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Was all of Stephen A. Douglas's promotion of 'popular sovereignty' a plausible device for getting him elected president? With his death in… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
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“When we allow it to go from a thought to an action--we sin, and when we sin, we are opening the door… — Lara Velez Copy Share Image
I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali.… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
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Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image