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• After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity.

  Steven Pinker

  Fate, Sacrifice, Men

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

  Winston Churchill

  Baby, Learning, Science

  As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

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• Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

  David Goodstein

  Science, Hands, Carrying On

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• He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Sympathy, Condolences, Dark

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• Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

  T. Harv Eker

  Self Confidence, Opportunity, Names

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• For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Men, Forget

  John F. Kennedy (1963). “Profiles in Courage”

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• I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Courage, Two

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• Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

  Charles Horace Mayo

  Heart, Knowledge, Science

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• I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

  Richard K. Diran

  Funny, Nature, Garden

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• When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Vegetarianism, Worry, Disease

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• We live and die; Christ died and lived!

  John Stott

  Easter, Life Changing, Sunday

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• I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less.

  Rumi

  Dying, Dresses, Spirituality

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• I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

  Mark Twain

  Growing Up, Maturity, People

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• In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Dope, People

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Vision, President, Kind

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• There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Pain

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• Land where my fathers died,
  Land of the pilgrims' pride,
  From every mountainside
  Let freedom ring!

  Samuel Francis Smith

  Father, 4th Of July, Pride

  "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14

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• Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sweet, Real, Passion

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• After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mom, Fashion, Real

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• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Past

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• Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

  J. K. Rowling

  Betrayal, Should Have, Done

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• I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

  Tupac Shakur

  Baby, Rapper, Blood

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• Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.

  Bob Dole

  Dream, Morning, Father

  "Text of Robert Dole's Speech To The Republican National Convention August 15, 1996". www.cnn.com.

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• Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.

  Peter Mayle

  Spring, Rain, Dirty

  Peter Mayle (2001). “Toujours Provence”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Get Well, Hard Work, Serious Illness

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