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" Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. "
Adlai E. Stevenson
Soul
Short
Death
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" To some extent I liken slavery to death. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Slavery
" Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. "
Tryon Edwards
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Like
End
" Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. "
Les Brown
Life
Relationship
Death
" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "
Guillermo del Toro
Mexico
You
Time
" No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. "
James Caan
Heights
Death
Achieve
" Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial. "
Howard Jacobson
Denial
Israel
False
" The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat. "
Amiri Baraka
Time
American
Death
" Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. "
Albert Einstein
Education
Death
Only
" Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. "
George Carlin
Death
Over
Period
" If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. "
Indira Gandhi
Violence
Death
Fear
" We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. "
Charles de Montesquieu
Should
Birth
Death
" Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. "
Sun Tzu
Doubts
Then
Need
" You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. "
Michael Eric Dyson
Life
Death
Words
" Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. "
Steve Jobs
Pride
Fear
Fall
" I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. "
Alain Robert
Maybe
Climb
Life
" The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. "
Blaise Pascal
Charm
Fame
Like
" Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. "
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Nothing
Death
Dies
" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "
Oscar Wilde
Facts
Explain
Death
" As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. "
Blaise Pascal
Ignorance
Happy
Fight
" Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. "
Lee Iacocca
Death
Respect
God
" The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary. "
Viktor Orban
Death
Question
Death Penalty
" Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. "
Henry Van Dyke
Death
Die
Some People
" Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! "
Luigi Pirandello
Laugh
Man
Luck
" I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. "
Robert Fulghum
Knowledge
Hope
History
" Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. "
Julius Caesar
Death
Other
Which
" In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. "
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Crime
Death
India
" Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. "
Thomas Browne
Living
Shadows
Shadow
" The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. "
Marco Tempest
Death
Obstacles
Magic
" The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life. "
Russell M. Nelson
Only
Love
Life
" Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. "
Theodore Roosevelt
Suffering
Absence
Death