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suicidal science long
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. Carl Sagan
suicidal men ahab
Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality. Edward Said
suicidal nightmare ends
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. Arthur Koestler
suicidal should-have rivers
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial. Edward Abbey
suicidal order years
I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people. Adolf Hitler
suicidal years answers
I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this. Courtney Love
suicidal people waiting
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured--especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised. E. O. Wilson
suicidal may want
May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die. Damien Rice
suicidal thinking doors
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment. Douglas Coupland
risk accomplish great-things
If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived. C. S. Lewis
risk important use
It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself. Carrie Mae Weems
risk inquiry elements
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk. Carl Sagan
risk tears ifs
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
risk strategy efficiency
Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy. Bill Vaughan
risk
That's the risk you take in the shotgun. But it was nothing serious. Brett Basanez
risk
That's the risk when you come down here with no points. Scott Riggs
risk taking worth
That's a world worth taking a risk for, John Barlow
risk small talking
I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero. Paul Browne
serious female lifts
I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid. Bill Cosby
serious theory homosexual
It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual. C. S. Lewis
serious ifs
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize. Berkeley Breathed
seriously street
I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio. Tone Loc
serious somebody
That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then - the person is still with you. With dementia, there's no conversation; there's no togetherness, no sharing. Judy Parfitt
seriously
I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision. John Edward
serious signed
I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want. Michael Ballack
serious tomorrow
We are going tomorrow to get very serious on Sudan. Javier Solana
serious trouble
I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football, Sam Wyche