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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours…
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Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and…
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost…
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a…
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an…
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing…
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I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that,…
— Brian Clough
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Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
— Edward Abbey
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
— Octavio Paz
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard…
— Mark Twain
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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
— Paul Eldridge
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the…
— Washington Irving
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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of…
— William Shakespeare
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No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with…
— William Shakespeare
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History: a collection of epitaphs.
— Elbert Hubbard
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