“It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.” PeopleIfsMeanDiesFightingNumbersMake Sense Book:By the Sword Source: By the Sword
“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.” WellsLooksMayLittlesEnoughDiesEvilChurchNumbersWorshipSickAdversityTrialsWeatherChiefsHypocrisySubtleInwardRequestMischiefMaladyGood Weather Author:Joseph Hall
“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.” PeopleIfsWayYearsCountryReasonMotivationalRememberDiesThreeReadingLosesNumbersProveRetiringThree YearsContributingWill To LiveProve To Me Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.” IfsChildrenHomeDiesChanceNumbersDangerousCarTypeGunMajorityAccidentsHuntingCigaretteHolding OnLoadedLightersFirearmsFatalityLoaded Gun Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.” PeopleKnowsFirstsHeartWarDiesNumbersCenturySecurityDiedDecadesAidsAgendas21st Century20th CenturyRivalsHivHiv Aids Author:Al Gore
“What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.” PeopleIfsYearsDiesNumbersPovertyMillionsViolenceHungerStarvationHunger And Poverty Author:Tom Morello
“Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.” IfsMenLittlesFacesDiesNamesNumbersMysteryCryStrangeRainOvercomingWoodsInsaneOur FamilyGasOne ManThroatTornChamberCapsSpitAccommodatePassivityPower Of OneGas Chambers Author:Tadeusz Borowski
“I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.” IfsDiesInterestingNumbersActingFulfillingVery InterestingRealised Author:Matthew Rhys
“I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.” PeopleWellsPlayDiesGamesBornNumbersPromiseMouthsMathematicsProfessionGladBreadMathematicianI PromiseSixteenEpilepsyBlindfolds Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904 Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.” KnowsMatterAgeArtistDiesActorsNumbersDestinyWrittenYouthDramaSentencesOld AgeGloriousDelusionCoincidenceObscure Author:Eric Hoffer