Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized."
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Demise
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David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
Frank Herbert
Science Fiction Writer
"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror."
Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise."
Robert Smith
Musician
"Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it."
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"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
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"Reason is immortal, all else mortal."
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"I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in."
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"What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances"
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"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me."
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"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."
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"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."
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"I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend."
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"the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated."
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"If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong."
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"As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases."
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"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."
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"The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated."
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"As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring."
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"Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men."
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"Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise."
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