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  • If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

  • Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

    Moving   Doctors   Ebola  
  • Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

    Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.107
  • But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

    Feelings   Events   Ghost  
    The Scarlet Letter ch. 5 (1850)
  • Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

    Freedom   Real   Names  
    William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.23, Harvard University Press
  • What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

    Men   May   Way  
  • PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.182, University of Georgia Press
  • If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.

    Fighting   Israel   Use  
    "German man killed in renewed Israeli assault". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2000.
  • If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.

    Children   Home   Gun  
  • I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

  • Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.

    Cancer   Years   Causes  
  • Paris, the FedEx deliveryman of Pleasure and Fatality.

    Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.142, HQN Books
  • Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

    Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.366, Random House
  • There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

  • By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?

    Doors   Years   Space  
  • I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.

    Work   Profound   Doubt  
  • The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

    Military   War   Atlanta  
    "A Q&A with Bill Gate". Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.
  • Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

    John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group
  • Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

    Men   Action   Providence  
  • An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

    Baseball   Team   Law  
  • Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

  • 92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars.

    People   Car   What If  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!

    Heart   Light   Knowing  
  • Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.

    John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.163, SIU Press
  • Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

    Storm   Driving   Blind  
    Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The waverly novels”, p.595
  • The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.163, GENERAL PRESS
  • My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).

    Cancer   Dark   Years  
  • I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.

  • In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.

    Dog   Garden   Rocks  
    Paul Davies (2015). “The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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