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• I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Inspiration, Wish

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• It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

  Anne Baxter

  Inspiring, Failure, Phoenix

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• You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Toilets, Care, I Care

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• Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

  Richard Pryor

  Islands, Half, Want

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• No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Incense, Burn Out, Lighters

  Walter Savage Landor (1933). “Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture”

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• When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

  Frank McCourt

  Childhood, Catholic, Ordinary

  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir ch. 1 (1996)

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• Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

  H. G. Wells

  Fire, Leader, Choke

  "Kgalema Motlanthe's Farewell Speech". www.iol.co.za. March 12, 2014.

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• Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

  Bobby Darin

  Shoes, Boots, Flip

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• My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, War, Struggle

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• I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

  Elizabeth I

  Shepherds, Reign, Left

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• Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears.

  Nancy Holder

  Mother, Dust, Blood

  Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié (2010). “Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Dream, Phoenix, Socialism

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• No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.

  Pope Francis

  Sleep, Fasting, Matter

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• Feather to fire,fire to blood
  Blood to bone,bone to marrow
  Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

  Gregory Colbert

  Fire, Blood, Snow

  "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.

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• For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Mama, Sides, Reason

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• I dare to dream greatly; I dare to fail greatly. I dare to tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled dreams, for I may dream again. I dare not tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled life, for I may never live again.

  Philippos Syrigos

  Dream, May, Failing

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• Lastly, the ashes left behind,
  May daily show to move the mind,
  That to ashes and dust return we must:
  Then think, and drink tobacco.

  George Wither

  Moving, Thinking, Dust

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• What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

  Robert Harris

  Careers, Political, Amount

  Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.

  Abbi Glines

  Fun, Stupid, Names

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• A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

  Aberjhani

  New Year, Bridges, Wings

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• Love make us a liar. . Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes

  Cassandra Clare

  Liars, Cities, Jace

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• Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Anger, Adversity, Flames

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• Ash should take the ladies, because he's charming." Ash looked pleased. Jared raised his eyebrows. "Are you saying that I'm not a charmer?" "You are very dear to me, but you have all the savoir faire of a wildebeest," Kami told him. "A wildebeest," Jared repeated. "A dashingly handsome wildebeest," Kami assured him.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eyebrows, Handsome, Charming

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.233, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hate, Teeth, Said

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

  Jeff Mangum

  Life, Beautiful, Sea

  "Song: "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"". 1998.

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