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The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the mortal to the… — Corinne Heline
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in… — Plutarch
Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves. — Janet Morris
The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the late… — Louis Farrakhan
The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,'… — William J. Clinton
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which… — Erwin Rommel
Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the… — Bruce R. McConkie
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for… — Joseph Goebbels
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)… — Elmore Leonard
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to… — Cecil O. Samuelson
Thank and glorify His Beloved Son, who, with indescribable suffering, gave His life on Calvary's cross to pay the debt of mortal sin. He it… — Gordon B. Hinckley
In our search to obtain relief from the stresses of life, may we earnestly seek ways to simplify our lives. May we comply with the… — L. Tom Perry
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old… — Henry David Thoreau
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace shall befall than… — Nicholas Grimald
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely… — Ludwig von Mises
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. — Albert Einstein
Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But… — Neal A. Maxwell
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are… — Francis Quarles
He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able… — Unknown Author
Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences… — John F. Kennedy
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner

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