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• Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

  Mickey Rooney

  Liars, Games, Passing Away

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• Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.

  George Polya

  Night, Law, Light

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• His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.

  Diophantus

  Life, Children, Father

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• Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Irony, Moments

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• I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]

  Johannes Kepler

  Sky, Mind, Shadow

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• Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mistake, Fool, Sin

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• 'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

  Studs Terkel

  Cat, Curiosity

  "Studs Terkel, Listener to Americans, Dies at 96" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2008.

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• [Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dust, Way, Excuse

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• I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Jobs, Tombstone

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• 'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.

  Ilana Mercer

  Believe, Government, Political

  "'You Didn't Build That': Obama's Political Epitaph". www.wnd.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

  T. S. Eliot

  Phrases, Ends, Quartets

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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