Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
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Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Certain things existed out of time. It was ten years ago, it was this morning. In that way the accident was like… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
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My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
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Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings… — Georges Brassens Copy Share Image
We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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![“Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's because we're getting vaccines out, economic improvement also helps there, but the vaccines are why we've seen an acceleration in getting that down.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cbe/bill-gates-137_acceleration_now-we-ve-got-that-children-s-death-rate_3151411.jpg)
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