Quotes with death-like

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  • B. W. Powe Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
    Towards A Canada of Light Second Meditation, p. 128
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Alistair Cooke Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Karl Marx Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Mohsin Hamid Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn Catching the light and falling into dark
    And the world fades out like an overheard remark...
    In the falling dark
    In The Falling Dark (1976) Title track, In The Falling Dark (See also: John M
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Carrie Fisher Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • William Arthur Ward Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Jim Rohn Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Campbell Brown Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bobby Fischer Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bill Ayers Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Marcelene Cox Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Leonard Cohen Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bill Kurtis Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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