Quotes with die-hard

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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...in our society... this has now become a propagandist system in which emphasis is put on the future... the ideology against which the young people of the 1950's and 1960's rebelled. Future preference: plan; study hard; save.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Robert Frost A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bernard Berenson A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Tony Benn A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Denzel Washington A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Franz Kafka A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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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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  • Billy Corgan A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • John Heywood A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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  • Philip Roth A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Louis XVIII A king should die on his feet.
    Louis XVIII
     
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  • George Gurdjieff A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • John F. Kennedy A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Martin Luther King A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Carly Fiorina A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Max Planck A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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