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• Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Thinking, World

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• We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

  Clive Barker

  Life, Believe, Health

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 06, 2013

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Song, Justice, Silence

  "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.

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• It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  World, Small World

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 31, 1963.

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• There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hallucinations, Wilderness, Melancholy

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  Milan Kundera

  Tombstone, Flower, Garden

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• History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Ideas, History

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• The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Indispensable

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• My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Swings, Wind, Mind

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Wisdom, Witty

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• Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you can summon up courage and arrive at decisions, in cemeteries life takes on distinct contours -- I am not referring to the borders of the graves -- and if you will, a meaning.

  Gunter Grass

  Decision, Borders, Alive

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• Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, New Orleans, Order

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• Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Bores, Stills, Walking

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• Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

  Franco Nero

  Tombstone, Love Is, Years

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• There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

  Colonel Sanders

  Death, Business, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moon

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• The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Past, Men

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Best Job, Design Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

  Ross Perot

  Men, People, Want

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• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

  Jack Levin

  Fighting, Disease, Prison

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• Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Memorial Day, Sorry, War

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• In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates the ebbing blood of the past, of a vigorous and vividly hued past.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Past, Blood, House

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  Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  Malcolm X

  Respect, Peace, Hands

  "Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963

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