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Dead Things
«The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.»
Author: Angelina Jolie
(Actress)
| Keywords:
alive, animal, cage, caged, cage in, Dead Things, Feel free, feel like, free love, free thought, The Cage, uncommon
«Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.»
«Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them»
«A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| Keywords:
cutting, cut away, dead hand, Dead Things, go over, lamp, revere, revering
«All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
adequately, agreed, As Good as Dead, Be Free, Dead Things, Fed, lunatics, slave, starved, starves
«The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
and how, bond, bonded, bonding, both, built, connected, connecting, countless, daily, dead, dead soul, Dead Things, Divine, earnestly, exert, exerted, exerting, exerts, fate, give in, here, however, inner, Into the Unknown, in bonds, in labor, in order, in return, in short order, knowing, labors, Labor Day, much as, order, order of the day, outer, received, return, sake, seeming, short, short order, situation, souls, standpoint, strange, sympathy, unknown, unknowns, visit, with sympathy
«The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who know it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out can»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
amazement, as good as, As Good as Dead, Best Art, cradle, cradled, cradles, dead, Dead Things, emotion, fairest, From the Cradle, fundamental, longer, mysterious, no longer, science, snuffed, snuffing, snuffs, snuff it, snuff out, stands, wonder
«But Job answered and said, / How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? / How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? / To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? / Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.»
