Quotes with deaths

  • What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
  • An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.

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  • Oscar Wilde And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Jennings Bryan If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Susan Sontag A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bill Dedman A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Joseph Stalin A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Albert Camus After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bruce Schneier Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Philip Johnson All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
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  • Bill Dedman An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • William Shakespeare Cowards die many times before their deaths.
    Julius Caesar II, 2, 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oscar Wilde For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gloria Steinem Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Heywood Brown He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
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  • Audre Lorde I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
    The Black Unicorn: Poems (1995) 22
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Virginia Woolf It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Josef Stalin One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Campbell Brown The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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