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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

John Locke
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

Epicurus
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Logic is like the sword-those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Samuel Butler
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Thomas Moore
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If they didn't perish in the bombs they are still out there somewhere or have left the country.

Andy Trotter
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf
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The smugglers are moving the groups laterally in Mexico and then crossing them in very desolate, remote places along the Southwest border. And in many cases, individuals will perish in the desert.

Mario Villarreal
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The deep concern is that people who survived the earthquake should not now perish because of something like a tent fire. Our deepest desire is to help earthquake survivors make it through the winter alive.

Ben Malor
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There we found a Cheyenne cannot live. So we came home. Better it was, we thought, to die fighting than to perish of sickness.

Dull Knife
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Hilaire Belloc
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Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.

Wilhelm Stekel
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Perish the thought!

Colley Cibber
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Rome shall perish - write that word / In the blood that she has spilt.

William Cowper
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adler
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...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln
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Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Immanuel Kant
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Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

Homer
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Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge, is to perish.

Frank Borman
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A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Gustave Flaubert
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If a Category 4 hurricane ever hits New Orleans directly, the dikes will be breached and destroyed, and thousands will perish, ... Geological Hazards.

Timothy Kusky
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Sadly, many of these birds likely perish.

Phil Taylor
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Mikhail Bakunin
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Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.

Francis Thompson
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Perish the Universe, provided I have my revenge.

Cyrano De Bergerac
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