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"Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me." »Epictetus
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"If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself." »H. L. Mencken
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"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity." »Edwin H. Land
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"It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end." »Douglas Adams
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"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along." »Madeleine L'Engle
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run." »Mark Twain
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"In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete." »Maggie Roche
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"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses." »Robert Burton
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count." »Neil Simon
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"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." »J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
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"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree." »Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move." »David Letterman
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"The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." »Winston Churchill
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"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." »James Madison
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always." »Katherine Anne Porter
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come." »William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come." »William Shakespeare
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"Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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"Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Never knock on Death's door ring the bell and run away death really hates that" »Matt Frewer
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"During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." »Fritjof Capra
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"During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." »Fritjof Capra, physicist
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"I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death...Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through." »Sybil Adelman
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"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow." »Charles Hendrickson Brower
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