Quotes with death-like

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  • Thurgood Marshall A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
    Thurgood Marshall
    American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1908 - 1993)
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  • Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Frank Zappa A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A useless life is an early death.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Cowper Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Groucho Marx He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you - he really is an idiot.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Felix Adler Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Oscar Wilde Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jules Renard Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Voltaire I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Walt Disney The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • James Stephens ''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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