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Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
Source: Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999) -
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
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Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Marriage is the result of the longing for the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
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More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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Mourning is a hard business, Cesare said. If people knew there'd be less death.
Source: Life is Better than Death, in Idiots First
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