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“It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.”

Ifs Care Funny Dies Hollywood Fingers Take Care Lifts California Undertaker

Source: I KID YOU NOT

“Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.”

“It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.”

Want Made Hard Running Film Dies Actors Fantasy Childhood Thieves Obscure Midnight Bicycle

Author:Ben Affleck

“Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.”

Wells Littles Hard Dies Successful Office Okay Boxes Box Office

Author:Bruce Willis

“I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in places just beginning their lives.”

Thinking I Can Hands Dies President Gun President Bush

Author:F. Murray Abraham

“If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.”

Ifs Men Want Children Kids Dies Fighting Decided Stranger Bunch Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

Author:F. Murray Abraham

“Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.”

Dies Knowing Outcomes

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.”

Ifs World Dies Fronts Recognizing

Author:Star Jones

“The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.”

Ifs Dies Found Periods Great Things Swim

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.”

“All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority for a long time to come, especially among experiencers, but for me the evidence and the arguments are overwhelming ... We are biological organisms, evolved in fascinating ways for no purpose at all and with no end in mind. We are simply here and this is how it is. I have no self and "I" own nothing. There is no one to die. There is just this moment, and now this, and now this.”

“No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.”

People Long Dies Language Atheism Periods Careful Positive Atheism Comparison March Customs Decay Rejected Obsolete Extending Watchers Glaciers

Book:Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne

Source: Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne

“It is the lot of man but once to die.”

Men Dies Literature

Book:Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man

Source: Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man

“At the time of birth an ordering takes place. The awarenesses come together; they become specific until a person dies. At that point all those awarenesses, all that you have ever been or will ever be, go back again, into the great unknown.”

Persons Together Dies Awareness Birth Mysticism Back Again Great Unknown

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose yourself to energies and powers and forces will determine whether you have a lot of energy or you lose energy.”

Way Dies Energy Force Loses Determine Mysticism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.”

Trying Children Christian Suffering Dies Universe Evil Struggle Share Atheism Concerned Positive Atheism Your Presence Revulsion

Author:Albert Camus

“I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.”

World Writing Helping Order Dies Christ Sin Millions Atheism Ignorance Positive Atheism Saved New World Knowledge Of God

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.”

Mean Dies Atheism Fool Prove Positive Atheism Martyr Knaves

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.”

People Men Dream Age Dies Given Atheism Died Sake Positive Atheism Golden Prophet Given Up Golden Age

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.”

“Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.”

Made Dies Atheism Positive Atheism Mediums Crossings Guinea Sweepers

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“In that he didn't die at the finish line, he could have run faster”

Running Dies Lines Faster Finish Line

Author:Tim Noakes

“If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being.”

Ifs Humans Important Enough Dies Human Beings Levels Car Disease Losing Lows Picks Accidents Mysticism Car Accident Losing Power Get Low

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When our power level is down sufficiently, we die.”

Dies Levels Losing Mysticism Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.”

Knows Men Earth Faces Dies Felt Know How Baseball

Author:Mickey Mantle

“It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.”

Long Dies Sports Dog Missing Long Time Athlete Pet Pet Dog

Author:Jesse Owens

“Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.”

Way Feels Dies Strong Causes Voice Atheism Standing Prepared Crowds Positive Atheism Loud

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.”

Dies Atheism Emotional Positive Atheism

Book:Looking Back

Source: Looking Back

“The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the test tube. And in our case, what we're communicating here to people is not necessarily something they want to hear. And so, our demeanor - how we deliver this message - takes on crucial, crucial importance.”

People Want Ideas Humanity Dies Cases Atheism Messages Tests Importance Communicate Positive Atheism Useless Crucial Tubes Demeanor

Author:Phil Plait

“The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.”

Men Dies Study Wise Atheism Positive Atheism

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die.”

Dies Loses Basketball

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“When I die, so does hip hop.”

Doe Funny Dies Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Eminem

“If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.”

Ifs Dies Basketball Sticks Simplicity Horrible Lakers

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.”

Firsts Said Artist Dies Careers Creative Hardest Inevitability

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.”

People Should Dies Strong Poor Inequality Justify Smarter

Author:Frans de Waal

“One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.”

Way Dies Attitude Cancer Ugly Vigorous Live Without Fear

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."”

Ifs Needs Looks Done Dies Mistake Careers Gone Listening Evolve Saying Maybe

Author:Kevin Costner

“To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.”

Knows Years Sometimes Young Dies Grows Loses Aging Ignorant Grandfather Glimpse Ponds Midsummer

Book:The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

Source: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

“There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.”

Ifs Helping Dies Illusion

Author:Mike Tyson

“When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.”

Thinking Years Kind Said Dies Laughing Successful Being Successful Better Life Old You Happier Life

Author:Steve Wozniak

“When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.”

People Giving Wells Heart Stills Spiritual Dies Sadness Broken Remains Communicate Wide Giving And Receiving Heart Broke Love And Forgiveness

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.”

People Ifs Writing Certain Dies Jokes Tragedy Tweet

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.”

Thinking Should Dies

Author:Serena Williams

“Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.”

Humans Dies Opinion Imagine Importance Improvement Human Life Imagine That Memorial Trifles

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'”

Ifs Said Dies Pay Plenty Abundance Collectives Peter Headings Selected Epoch Robbing

Book:Selected Verse

Source: Selected Verse

“You got to live before you can afford to die.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.”

Ifs Should Years Dies Doctors Meat Assured Starvation

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“To live in the past is to die in the present.”

Past Dies

Author:Bill Belichick

“Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.”

Persons Dies Library Burning Old Person Burning Down

Author:Alex Haley

“I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.”

Life Is Dies Males Definitions Superiors Balanced Earning Balanced Life Earning Money

Author:Warren Farrell

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