Heraclitus - Corpses are more fit to be thrown...

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Heraclitus

Greek Philosopher

Died: 483 BC

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Corpses, Out, More, Thrown, Fit, Than

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Aristotle, Democritus, Diogenes, Epictetus, Epicurus, Plato, Plutarch, Socrates

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Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. Martin Heidegger

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In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough. Alexandra Fuller

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If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on. Anthony Doerr

Generation Try Become Before Our Corpses Moral Imperative Genes Pass Leave Survive Them Planet Next Next Generation Biological

I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop. Christian Bale

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