"As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols." — Elizabeth A. Johnson

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• Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must… — Aristophanes
• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
• Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
• I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent… — David Attenborough
• Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
• Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,… — Margaret Atwood
• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still… — Sri Aurobindo
• It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the… — Paul Auster
• The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon

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