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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

Harry S Truman
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The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

Mary Wilson Little
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I mean, how many times does an actress get to play a school headmistress and then go out and have sex on top of a tombstone? Even when I see it now, I blush.

Andie Macdowell
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We accept, no questions asked, tombstones that someone has at their home or wherever. If someone has a tombstone because they think it looks nice in their garden, they can keep it, but if they'd like to get rid of it, we will figure where it belongs and return the tombstone.

Jeremy Nichols
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[The cemetery shows the fleetingness of fame and wealth. Anyone remember John Finley, a Princeton politics professor who was also editor in chief of The New York Times until he retired in 1938? Mr. Sutphen pointed out the modest tombstone of Howard T. Behrman, 1912-1985:] He gave $20 million to Princeton University and I bet no one even looks at this. ... Monuments getting bigger.

The Brothers Grimm
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If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

Jefferson Davis
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I think that's where (Smith) was going to put Mother, under that headstone. Who's going to think twice about an old body under an old tombstone?

Mark Simpson
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I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

Katherine Dunham
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[As he's traversing Texas on his quest for vengeance, Vegas runs into a Texas Ranger.] His name is Harlan Stone, ... His nickname is Tombstone. He's the sort that you're going to pry his guns from his cold dead fingers. In broad western terms Tombstone is the sheriff and Vegas is the drifter.

Karl Kesel
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You can see her sitting there on her father's tombstone; see his spirit brushing her hair.

Angela Green
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Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Aubrey De Vere
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We had some errors, and it dropped the girls' morale, then they lost confidence in themselves. It's our one bad game for the week. We are looking forward to playing Tombstone on Thursday. If we win against Tombstone, we'll go to state.

Rand Baker
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Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power.

Anatol Lieven
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(Palm Pictures founder) Chris Blackwell said to me 6 or 7 years ago that DVD doesn't have to be a tombstone for creative content. He said (DVD) is such a great format that people will make content solely for DVD, and not just cheap franchise movies, but things that will extend the audio and visual arts.

Richard Brown
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A tiny baby that would have been lost is now remembered because of a tombstone script and picture. Once you get into it, it becomes a passion. It's who you are.

Betty Miller
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Dorothy Parker
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They kind of brought me in to clean up Tombstone. I did what they mandated me to do.

Sparky Woods
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My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

Margaret Smith
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The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: ''He kept down the cost and set the type right.''.

Gregory Nunn
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When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Yul Brynner
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His family is torn, too. But they can go visit him. The only thing we have is a tombstone.

James Camm
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