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Royalty is a fine burial shroud.
Theodora / Wife Of Justinian I
Burial
Fine
Royalty
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The burial of feelings has begun.
Mark Strand / Poet
Burial
Feelings
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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
Stephen King / Author
Burial
Mystery
Secret
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Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.
Ugo Betti / Judge
Burial
Honest
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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Heraclitus / Philosopher
Death
Burial
Corpses
Fit
Thrown
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Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J. G. Ballard / Novelist
Burial
Customs
Decadence
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All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
Christopher Marlowe / Dramatist
Burial
Earth
Fit
Alike
Places
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A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.
Han Suyin / Physician
Family
Burial
Doings
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
Caitlin Doughty /
Burial
Shroud
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A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.
Ayman Odeh /
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There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock / Film Director
Burial
Sea
Simple
Tidy
Quite
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Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.
Wil Shriner / Actor
Boxes
Burial
California
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A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.
Francois Mauriac / Author
Burial
Cemetery
World
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I played a couple first-class matches at Carlton and Guaracara Park and it was a real burial ground for the fast bowlers.
Brian Lara / Cricket Player
Burial
Matches
Park
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Girl
Burial
Literature
Long
Pretty Girl
Theater
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I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.
Brian Eno / Musician
Burial
Clumsy
Curiously
Rhythms
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One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.
Hudson Stuck / Priest
Burial
Cracks
Mountain
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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
Harold Brodkey / Writer
Burial
Center
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As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.
Jon Porter / Former United States Representative
Able
Burial
Congress
Importance
Loved Ones
Meaningful
Parent
Ensuring
Families
Member
Proper
Provide
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In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
Caitlin Doughty /
America
Body
Burial
Denial
Layers
Over It
Casket
Ground
Over
Settle
Vault
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Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.
Adrienne Mayor / Historian
Antiquity
Burial
Evidence
Hunting
Imagery
Pointing
Years Ago
Abound
Eagle
Whose
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The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?
Hannah Kent / Writer
Burial
Encounters
March
Center
Rites
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Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
Jay Parini /
Belonging
Bones
Burial
Distrust
Excitement
Baptist
Cross
Fragment
James
Shroud
Supposedly
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent / Writer
Burial
Extraordinary
Iceland
Ineffable
Landscape
Ongoing
Particular
Constantly
Qualities
Rites
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I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
Tony Hillerman / Author
Attitude
Burial
Elements
Mind
Plot
Tribes
Two
Aware
Cultural
Readers
Sites
Thief
Toward
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As there is no spiking-the-football exception to our open-records laws, Judicial Watch initiated a federal court battle with the administration over the release of postmortem images of bin Laden and his alleged burial at sea.
Tom Fitton / Activist
Administration
Battle
Burial
Court
Exception
Judicial
Release
Sea
Alleged
Bin
Watch
Federal
Images
Initiated
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Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.
Guru Nanak / Sikh Guru
Bathing
Burial
Mere
Pilgrimage
Pure
Treats
Visiting
Alike
Amidst
Lie
Wandering
Nor
Places
Remain
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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte / Philosopher
Bliss
Burial
Future Life
Infinite
Mere
Range
Closely
Seek
Sought
Surrounds
Throughout
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr. / Civil Rights Activist
Religion
Burial
Concerned
Damn
Economic
Slums
Social
Awaiting
Cripple
Souls
Spiritually
Strangle
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If you chose to live in a home that is living on intersecting laylines, and you're living on an Indian burial ground and having paranormal experiences that are bothersome, you're not going to get rid of them. They've taken ownership of that home and that area.
Zak Bagans / Television Personality
Burial
Indian
Ownership
Paranormal
Area
Chose
Experiences
Ground
Rid
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My parent's house, to be honest, is like a snail's disco. It's a fine house but my parents are very eccentric. Also that house might be built on an Ancient Egyptian burial ground or something, because the plague of insects that hit that house as we were growing up.
Natasia Demetriou /
Ancient
Burial
Disco
Eccentric
Egyptian
Fine
Growing Up
Honest
House
Insects
Might
Parent
Plague
Snail
Also
Hit
Ground
Parents
To Be Honest
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I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.
Carmen Dell'orefice / Fashion Model
Business
Alive
Bits
Burial
Care
Eyeballs
Garbage
Life Believe People
Skin
Celebrating
Funerals
Donor
Whatever
Rest
How Much
Intact
Organ
Showing
Whether
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Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
Caitlin Doughty /
Burial
Celebrate
Decay
Fragmentation
Helpless
Loss
Mass
Naturally
Doubles
La
Organic
Perish
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In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. /
Burial
Healthcare
Syphilis
Offered
Predecessor
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The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.
James Fenton / Poet
Burial
Engraved
Epitaph
Reading
Reproduction
Term
Appears
Original
Cut
Poem
Proper
Spoken
Stone
Tomb
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Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead.
Phil Robertson / Television Personality
Jesus
Burial
Guarantees
Importance
Moving
Past
Resurrection
Complex
Sins
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