Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy -… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
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The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I should have died when I was sixteen, when I planned to commit suicide. And I was an atheist until then. I… — Lacey Mosley Copy Share Image
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
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There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers,… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
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There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
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Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
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I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally.… — Ben Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
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“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
All the atoms we are made of are forged from hydrogen in stars that died and exploded before our solar system formed.… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison… — Lee Tergesen Copy Share Image
I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty… — Kevin Williamson Copy Share Image
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I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
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My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
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That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never had any desire to be famous. I find people who do really sad. I genuinely feel sorry for them because… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
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