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“...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Philosophy Might Life Is Subjects Effects Particular Cat Valuable Graves Superiors Mice Beaten Remarks Pessimist

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.”

Men Done Taken Subjects Sacred Graves Barbarians

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to fight with each other. The set piece that shapes and contains quarrels in homogeneous countries does not exist here. The Frenchman is an expert on the precise gradations of espèce de and the Italian knows exactly when to introduce the subject of his other's grave, but no American can be sure how or when another will react, so we zap each other with friendliness to neutralize potentially dangerous situations.”

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.”

Ifs Men Doe Stills Moral Subjects Committed Graves Accused Remarks Delinquency

Book:The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism

Source: The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism

“Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.”

People Film Subjects Mood Graves Prevailing Tackling

Author:Philippe Claudel

“There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.”

Mean War States United United States Subjects Crime Republican Soldier Congress Committed Graves Conventions Penalties Death Penalty Commanders Breach War Crimes Geneva Geneva Convention

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.”

People Subjects British Graves Fog Statesmen

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.”

People Littles Might Wanted Together Mother Certain Talking Subjects Dangerous Fronts Conversation Suicide Photograph Graves Discussion Hurtful Dealings

Author:Jurgen Teller