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“Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack s...”
“The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.”
“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
“The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.”
“I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is j...”
“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
“This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.”
“I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to ful...”
“In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hithert...”
“Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing.”
“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
“Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. ...”
“Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.”
“What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!”
“I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.”
“The 'Teen Wolf' fans are so great.”
“Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.”
“When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.”
“I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.”
“Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.”
