Quotes 761 till 780 of 1059.
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Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
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Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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That's the thing about L.A.- you can freeze to death under a rosebush, Richard says.
This Book Will Save Your Life (2006) -
That's what I like about [smoking]... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
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That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
White Noise (2011) 276 -
The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Speach Glasgow 19 November 1870 -
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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