"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."

Death, Victory, Statistics

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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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"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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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."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Swearing, d'Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary " except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d'Angelo couldn't see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn't a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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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."

Buddha, Indian Leader

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"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

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"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time."

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"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."

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"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."

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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

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"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."

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