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• The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Hero

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• One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Cities

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• We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Poison

  "Sahaf: U.S. troops will be burned". www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.

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• Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard.... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.

  Victoria Alexander

  Grief, Firsts, Spheres

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• Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self Harm, Fall, Fighting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

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• School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

  Robert D. Putnam

  School, Simple, Race

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• I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.

  Robert S. Mulliken

  Science, Interesting, Decision

  Robert S. Mulliken (2012). “Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory”, p.24, Springer Science & Business Media

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• My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

  Eric Clapton

  Summer, Memories, Drinking

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,' he said. 'At least I'll be killed alone.'

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Father, People

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• I'll be your crying shoulder, I'll be love's suicide, I'll be better when I'm older, I'll be the greatest fan of your life.

  Edwin McCain

  Love, Fans, Cry

  Song: I'LL BE Album 'Misguided Roses'

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• You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.

  Roddy Piper

  Wrestling, Pro Wrestling, Dictionary

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• No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Dream, Men

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• Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means.

  Mohamed Elmasry

  Islamic, Mean, Army

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• It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning.

  Cintra Wilson

  Numbness, Feelings, Dying

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• The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Teaching, Goal, Revision

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• We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.

  Thomas Berry

  Environmental, Earth, Devastation

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.104, Crown

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• We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.

  Barack Obama

  War, Fighting, Fire

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

  Drake

  Death, Here I Am, Alive

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• Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

  Arnold Bennett

  Procrastination, Funny Procrastination, Plans

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• A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

  Arthur Miller

  Death, Two, People

  "The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays".

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• Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Death, Criticism, Dying

  The Good Word pt. 1, ch. 15 (1978)

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• The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

  David Korten

  Goal, People, Community

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• A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Morning, Bus, Theologian

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• In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.

  Philip French

  Life, Death, Rocks

  "Feathered frenzy" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2005.

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• I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

  T. H. White

  Issues, Alive, Aviation

  "England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

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