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  • The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

    Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961
  • Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War

  • If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

    Goodbye   Jobs   Suicidal  
    "Let Detroit go bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.
  • Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

    Father   War   Demise  
    Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns
  • I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

    Crush   Flower   Hands  
    Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
  • The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

    Time   Men   Thinking  
    Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.43, Transaction Publishers
  • I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

    Plot   Demise   Way  
    "Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.
  • Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

    Mind   Trying   Demise  
  • After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad.

    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

  • There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

    Long   Victory   Done  
  • It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.

    Desire   Stories   Demise  
    Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.8, North Atlantic Books
  • A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

    Baseball   Enemy   Looks  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

    Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.10, Broadway Books
  • Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

    Fear   Mind   Body  
    Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures 493:17 (1875)
  • I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

    Stars   Children   Lying  
    "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong, 2001.
  • If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.

    Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books
  • George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

  • It felt after the Bonds, after my four outings as James Bond, there seemed to be unfinished business. And the way that the Bond finished in my life and the demise of Bond going off stage left into the night, it seemed like there was a certain void there, as they say, of unfinished business.

    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.

    Eye   Rocks   Long  
  • The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the matter if we believe the research produced by climate scientists. The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

    Believe   Yield   Oil  
  • With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.

  • Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

    Men   Ideas   Needs  
  • I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

  • I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

    Jobs   Textiles   Demise  
  • The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

    Speech on national TV, April 25, 2005.
  • Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.

    Art   Causes   Demise  
  • Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.

    People   Demise   Dull  
  • Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

  • The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

    Church   Demise   Century  
    "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.
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