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Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.
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Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
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Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
Source: Documentary Mandela (1994) -
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7 -
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon - but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx - the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.
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Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'
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Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
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Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
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