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The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through God's grace. The… — Carl Jung
Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers. — Homer
I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead. — Hamilcar Barca
Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever. — Archibald MacLeish
Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant. — Thom Yorke
Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light. — Johannes Itten
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit. — Wassily Kandinsky
I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old… — Bobby Fischer
Call no man happy until he is dead. — Solon
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there… — Robert Louis Stevenson
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that… — Harlan Ellison
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually… — Robert A. Heinlein
I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the… — Valentina Tereshkova
Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired… — Emanuel Lasker
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is,… — Jane Jacobs
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light.… — Jean Craighead George
I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog… — George R. R. Martin
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged… — Alfred North Whitehead
March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count. — Mike Tyson
Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life.… — Mike Tyson
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. — Cherrie Moraga
Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because… — Alison Bechdel
They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. — Swami Vivekananda

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