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" Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. "
Marina Abramovic
Creativity
Death
Greatness
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" The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death! "
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" The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. "
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" The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage. "
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" I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. "
Anne Frank
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" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "
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" People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible. "
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" Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. "
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" Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service. "
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" 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
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" Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. "
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" No one can make you happy. No one can help you grow in life more than you can. I can love you to death, but I can only go so far. I can inspire and encourage you as much as I can, but when you play an active role to find that self-security and that self-worth, it makes the difference. "
Musiq Soulchild
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" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "
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" I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides. "
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" Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. "
Isaiah Berlin
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" I am determined to offer an apology with my death. "
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" God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide. "
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" I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. "
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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" Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. "
Joseph Stalin
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" The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. "
Davy Crockett
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" When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn. "
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" Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. "
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" Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. "
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" No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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" There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. "
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" Death is the beginning of something. "
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" He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. "
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" None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths. "
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" It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. "
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" I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do. "
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" The goal of all life is death. "
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