Quotes 281 till 300 of 426.
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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
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The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.
Describing a Mexican baroque church -
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
My Study Windows (1871) -
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
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