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Charles Caleb Colton The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.
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Charles Spurgeon Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
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Edward Gibbon The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.
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David Hume If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.
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David Hume When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?
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David Duke Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Political courage is not political suicide.
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Antonin Artaud If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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Charles Spurgeon Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.
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Chris Cannon The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.
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Chief Seattle There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
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Edward Gibbon On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
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Edward Gibbon The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.
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Edith Sitwell Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.
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Edith Sitwell the great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves ...
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David Hockney I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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David Hume Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.
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Charles Dickens Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.
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Al Pacino Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Eartha Kitt People these days are thinking less and drinking more.
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Benedict Cumberbatch I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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Beatrice Webb All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...
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Bear Grylls I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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Denis Leary We drink and we die and continue to drink.
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Kurt Vonnegut We are what we pretend to be.
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Bertrand Russell Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.