Famous quotes containing the words risk, aversion and/or equal:
“Kemmerick: Hes dead. Hes dead.
Katczinsky: Why did you risk your life bringing him in?
Kemmerick: But its Behm. My friend.
Katczinsky: Its a corpse, no matter who it is.”
—Maxwell Anderson (18881959)
“When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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