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#gravest

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Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.


Robert Falcon Scott


#day #every #every day #fact #game

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.


Pliny the Elder


#another #authors #comparing #discovered #former

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.


Dan Wells


#building #gravestone #apocalypse

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.


Lascelles Abercrombie


#beauty #difficulty #gravest #important #making

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#death #death-angel #footprints #gravestone #death

It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is the final statement after a lifetime of scratching out divisions upon the ground, over ephemeral time itself, merely to give their short journeys meaning, to tell others “I was here – do not forget me, do not let my brief blast dissolve into nothingness.


Rob Bignell


#gravestone #meaninglessness #tombstone #men

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.


Clifford D. Simak


#death #gravestone #science #science-fiction #stars

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.


Abraham Joshua Heschel


#hatred #man #maximum #minimum #racism

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.


Eric Holder


#among #any #become #citizen #decision






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