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Quote by David Hume
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The plea

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. – David Hume

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When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

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Certainty
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David Hume
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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. – David Hume

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Beauty
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David Hume
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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. – David Hume

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Religion
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Death
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. – E. M. Forster

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. – Albert Camus

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Death

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

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Death

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. – Charles de Gaulle

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Death

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When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. – Steven Spielberg

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There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. – Golda Meir

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Once a new technology rolls over you, if youre not part of the steamroller, youre part of the road. – Stewart Brand

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