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" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Learning
Thought
Live
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" When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday. "
Albert Brooks
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Trying
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" Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal. "
Rudolf Steiner
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" The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. "
Robert M. Hutchins
Death
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Apathy
" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Advice
Death
Nothing
" I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
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" I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970. "
Aage Bohr
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" The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? "
Rush Limbaugh
Wrong
Death
Life
" The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. "
Vladimir Lenin
Delay
Same
Government
" It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. "
Alexandre Dumas
Know
Live
Good
" I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. "
Alfred Nobel
Promotion
Peace
I Am
" I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. "
Willa Cather
Lived
Having
Shall
" Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?' "
P. J. O'Rourke
Glorious
Always
Why
" We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God. "
Ellen G. White
Belong
God
Own
" The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears. "
Eckhart Tolle
Fear
Present
Live
" Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters. "
Kurt Eichenwald
Bell
People
World
" Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. "
Mary Harris Jones
Miners
Lives
Death
" There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. "
Roger Ebert
Death
You
Nothing
" Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Tears
Sad
Heart
" If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death. "
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Death
Yourself
You
" Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. "
Tennessee Williams
Way
Death
Liquor
" Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. "
Julius Caesar
Death
Other
Which
" Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "
Walt Whitman
More
Death
Nothing
" Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. "
Marcus Aurelius
Death
Mind
Senses
" The natural desire of good men is knowledge. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Good
Good Men
Knowledge
" I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death. "
Michel Houellebecq
Character
Good And Evil
Death
" The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. "
Blaise Pascal
Charm
Fame
Like
" To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. "
Buddha
Life
Death
Wise
" I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life. "
Tony Harrison
Just
Death
Life
" It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Lips
Me
Myself
" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Death
Life
Illusions