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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
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The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
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The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
― Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.
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The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
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The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
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The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
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The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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