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• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  Mary Pipher

  Courage, Morning, Alzheimer's

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• The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Time, Philosophical, Mean

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Criminals, Moral, Capital Punishment

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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• What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.

  Marguerite Duras

  Drinking, Mind, Able

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

  Marguerite Duras

  Drinking, Thinking, Wanting To Die

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?

  Storm Jameson

  Brother, Stupid, Men

  Storm Jameson (1956). “The Intruder”, London Macmillan 1956.

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• War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

  Storm Jameson

  Strong, War, Men

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

  Werner Herzog

  Steps, Genocide, Insecticides

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• Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.

  Joy Behar

  Weight, Skinny, Fats

  Joy Behar (1999). “Joy Shtick or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does it Come with Attachments”, Hyperion

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• America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Epidemics, America

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• Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Girl, Men, Should Have

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• Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

  Caryl Rivers

  Technology, Men, Light

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Survival, World, Cop

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• While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

  Katha Pollitt

  Moon, Men, Blood

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• Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

  Phyllis Chesler

  Time, Waste, Please

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• Manson's the man who's responsible for "killing the Sixties." He really knew how to play up the whole "most dangerous man alive" thing when at the time, the most dangerous man alive was Richard Nixon.

  John Roecker

  Men, Play, Alive

  "Punk, Puppets, and Manson as Messiah" by Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. January 27, 2006.

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• Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Rights, Law, Political

  "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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• When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.

  Julia Serano

  Ideas, Decision, Males

  Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.50, Seal Press

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• Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

  Anna Thomas

  Food, Animal, Needs

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• This is what I hold against slavery. May come a time when I forgive - cause I don't think I'm set up to forget - the beatings, the selling, the killings, but I don't think I ever forgive the ignorance they kept us in.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Ignorance, Thinking, Forgiving

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• How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky.

  Antero Alli

  Beautiful, Sky, Bird

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• Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Character, Cutting, Television

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• The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Egypt, People, Brotherhood

  "August 18: Ray Kelly, Sybrina Fulton, Benjamin Crump, Ben Jealous, Richard Engel, Sen. Jack Reed, Vali Nasr, Robin Wright, Robert Gibbs, Rich Lowry, Donna Edwards, Chuck Todd". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 18, 2013.

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• I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it, we're not going to retreat hastily, and we're not going to pull out of there before the job is done. And we have got a plan for victory.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Powerful, War

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 22, 2006.

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• We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Pockets

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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