Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.
– Sonya Hartnett
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- The only person who can pull you down is yourself. If you choose to pull yourself down, please don’t complain. – Lamees Alhassar
- I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. – Eugene V Debs
- We know how to lead projects, but we forget how to lead people, because we forgot how to lead ourselves. – Alin Sav
- For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well. – Pearl Zhu
- Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play ground of the nuclear arms of the evil forces. – Amit Ray
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- Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications. – Sunday Adelaja
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- I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. – Richard Baxter
- The world can’t die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- We are always dying, all the time. That’s what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths. – Chuck Klosterman
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- I wasn’t dying alone. My beloved was dying with me. – Jannat Bhat
- Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we’re not dying.Okay. – Cormac McCarthy
- Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad. – Clarice Lispector
- Everyone’s dying, Milcah. Some people are just dying sooner than others. – KK Hendin
- Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer’s disease accelerated one hundred times. – Steven Magee
- Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention. – Carsten Jensen
- The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I’m not. I’m only afraid of dying wrong. – Ally Condie
- Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. – Tsugumi Ohba
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- … Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out. – Sarah Dessen
- Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face. – Herta Mller