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"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."
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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
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"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."
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"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."
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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"
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"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."
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"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."
Lie
"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
Man
"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."
Content
"Money gives me pleasure all the time."
Money
"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
Friendship
"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."
Writing
"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language."
History
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
Death
"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."
Writing
"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."
Lie
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