Quotes 501 till 516 of 516.
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A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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Saint: A dead sinner, revised and edited.
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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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This crime wave ends when Donald Trump becomes president. Believe me.
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
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