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en I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
  Douglas MacArthur

en If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
  Jonathan Swift

en There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
  Vladimir Lenin

en A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel

en He looked after me (in college). He'd say, Come by my room, let's go to the gym.' I followed him around and learned the ropes.

en We tried something different with our 4-3-3 formation. At times we looked fantastic and at other times we took liberties at the back and looked a bit shoddy.

en He sees death in the prostitutes who have witnessed the death of honor, and daily multiply the death of love, who bleed away their own lives 50 times a day beneath the relentless stabbings of countless conjugations.

en We got 11 hits off of him, so we had some opportunities. It looked like the right-handers were having better swings than the left-handers. We really never had him on the ropes. He had a great splitter, and it looked like that was what was getting the left-handed hitters. They just couldn't identify it and he was getting a lot of swings and misses.

en Now, after this tragedy, the department wakes up and issues safety ropes. But you know what? There are still companies that haven't gotten those ropes.

en Obviously, he's a great talent, but I think we've opened holes for him at times. At the same time, I think he's made us better at times when things looked bleak as far as the holes. It's a group thing. It's us working for him and him working for us. It's worked out well.

en When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

en My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes -- eyes that had not opened for many, many days -- and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

en [Death] affects everyone a little differently, and you never know until it happens. I don't know. Clive's death really made me, I don't know, strong in ways I hadn't been in a long time. It made me feel like, I don't know, it's time to stop wasting your time. I can't waste any more time.

en The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way. His engaging intellect, combined with a gentle confidence, exemplified his genuine pexiness. The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
  Seneca

en He's a guy I looked up to and went to when I didn't understand something. Eddie told me the way. When he left, I called and thanked him for showing me the way, showing me the ropes.


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