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There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
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I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
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Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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I understood Stephen's point of view because if you had been given a death sentence at the age of 21, would you… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
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“The wings and snakes may have been late additions to the portrayal of Medusa, but they are nonetheless a natural concomitant of… — Miriam Robbins Dexter Copy Share Image
But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
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![“[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their association she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer…” quote by Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/susan-b-anthony-2103_ammunition_asked-upon-the-death-of-her-fast-friend_1576993.png)
![“[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother] The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a perfumed flower…” quote by Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eff/robert-g-ingersoll-4527_alms_robert-s-eulogy-at-his-brother-ebon-c-in_1639367.jpg)
