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When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.

~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Topics: Aftermath Boy Broken Came Church City Clothing Dying Food Germany Humanitarian Hungry Lake Many People Remember Ruins Salt Sick War Well Were World World War World War Ii Young I Remember

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And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Topics: About Away Close Come Doors Dying Going Had Houses Lasting Music New Next Nothing Nothing New Once Opera Orchestra Out Performed Pieces Then Thrown Time Truly Unity

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There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

~Dikembe Mutombo

Topics: Another Another Day Ask Day Dying Else Every Every Day Just Man Much Out People Planet Thank Up Upstairs Wake Wake Up You

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Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.

~Dikembe Mutombo

Topics: Africa Age Because Children Continue Diabetes Diseases Dying Every Fever Fight Five Funding Losing Lost Malaria Million Million People More More People Needs Now Pandemic People Rise Than Those Year Young Young Children

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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

~Don Rickles

Topics: About Age Alone Conceive Dying Earth How Many More Once Really Think While Years I Think

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New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Age Ceremony Circles Come Dying Endures Feel Grow Longer Losses Me Metaphor New Old Old Age Poems Preferable Prose Smaller Which Whole I Feel

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Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

~Donald Hall

Topics: About Anybody Because Bit Death Does Dying Forward Going Happen Know Little Little Bit Look Me Obviously Simply Worry You Ahead

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The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Back Coming Dying Films Halloween Idea Makes Work

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Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

~Donald Wolfit

Topics: Comedy Dying Easy Hard

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After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: After Another Dying Katrina People Relatives Same Were

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