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• Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Brother, Animal

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• Academia is a graveyard of poets.

  Kathleen Raine

  Academia, Poet

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• System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

  Fred Brooks

  Debugging, Occupation, Astronomy

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• Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".

  Russell Brand

  Funny, Names, Oddities

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• The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

  Arthur Lynch

  Sleep, Optimism, People

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• The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable.

  Joyelle McSweeney

  Internet

  "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.

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• Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

  Ralph Nader

  Two, Progressive Society, Way

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

  Teresa Heinz

  Real, Ideas, Political

  "Teresa Heinz" by Julia Turner, www.slate.com. December 11, 2003.

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• Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

  Dan Simmons

  Death, Heart, Sight

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• Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Children, Night, Light

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.113

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• The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.

  Sebastian Barry

  Father, Thinking, World

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre. ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about.

  Michael Kay

  Yankees, Cold, Bones

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• The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.

  Larry Sabato

  Party, Past, Average

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• I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

  Colin Quinn

  Strong, Russia, Hands

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2010.

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• Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.

  Anne Shirley

  Perfect, Soul, Trying

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• My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.

  Susan Crandall

  Strong, Mean, Past

  "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Book by Susan Crandall, 2014.

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• Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Writing, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.403

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• It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

  Diane Frolov

  Sleep, Cities, Church

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• Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

  Maureen Dowd

  Mother, Circles, Empires

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• There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.

  David Berlinski

  Gaps, Fossils, Facts

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• In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Book, Reflection

  Charles Dickens (1872). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.123

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• The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Life, Nature, Lying

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• They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Thinking

  "Iraq says Baghdad will be coalition's graveyard", www.cnn.com. March 27, 2003.

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• What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

  John Oliver Killens

  Thinking, Color, America

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