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"The Liberation Ladies will lead to generations of women willing to support a tired husband, and provide for his old age. He can be snug-abed in the morning while she pounds off in her thick boots to h…"

"There are as many ways to breath as there are foods to eat," said one... instructor... Another diver told me that some methods of breathing will nourish our brains... others hasten our death."

"Death of General John Sedgwick"

"Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal’s hands. Such is the only end to immortality."

"Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!"

"Amused to Death" on Amused to Death"

"There's much to be said for immortality – for example, the saving on funeral expenses. And no more nonsense about "legacies," and about how anything you've accomplished will "live on after you."

"… SARS-CoV-2. … Only the sick with co-morbidities are at risk of dying from the infection. …"

"Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, English translation by A. S. Kline"

"Say to the followers of innovation : the judge between us and you is the day of funerals."

"I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. Betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical."

"Even when the FDA agrees to expanded access, pharmaceutical companies are often reluctant to give terminal patients a drug that is still in development. If patients die from organ failure related to t…"

"After the death of Stalin the town was renamed Grazhdansk. But this name didn’t hold out more than a couple of years: then was the town given the name of Khrushchev himself. For a certain period after…"

"In the hands of a Feynman the technique works like a Latin charm; with ordinary mortals the result is a mixed bag."

"Fred Astaire once worked so hard/ he often lost his breath/ and now he taps all other chaps to death"

"There is, then, in these matters some absolute finding in the seeking: salvation is, to seek salvation, for in seeking it one has already abandoned mortality and his sin."

"All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death."

"We must all begin to question the experts. They have not really been right. No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity."

"The violence passed all bounds. The injuries and indignities they inflicted on Musulmans, and the destruction of mosques and tombs, were looked upon by them as righteous meritorious acts."

"The vendors seemed comical, so intent were they on their slivers of meaningless profit, all unaware of the desolate ages that lay in their own near future, their own imminent deaths."