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“Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'”

World Has Beens Culture Language Cities Century Dying Equal Celebrate Labels Attachment Fierce Stereotype Resent Civics Reflexes Calcutta Dysfunction Ferocity

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.”

People Way Years Book Language Growing Up Growing Century Dying New York Thousand Thousand Years 20th Century Provinces Marrying Our Town

Book:Our town: a play in three acts

Source: Our town: a play in three acts

“It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" - and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own.”

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Author:Lynne Truss

“For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.”

Ifs Men May Doe Fighting Greater Century Dying Hero Glory Harder Shining Great Men Latter Runners Marathon Beam Brows Laurels Latter Days Marathon Runners Wreaths

Author:Adolf Hitler

“It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.”

Ifs Firsts Running Three Nations Poor Century Dying Surrender Flags Observance Maple

Author:Charlotte Whitton

“HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.”

People World War Millions Century Dying Danger Aids War Of The Worlds Hiv Hiv Aids

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.”