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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. -- Patrick Marber
I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother. -- Torrey Smith
I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do. -- James Blunt
It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (...) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France. -- David Millar
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. -- John Hanning Speke
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building. -- Todd Tiahrt
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5. -- Ann Hood
There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that. -- Rose McGowan
In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime. -- Doc Hastings
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death. -- Hugh Laurie
Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare. -- Timothy Murphy
Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion. -- Todd Tiahrt
I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
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The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation. -- Jennifer Dunn
I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had. -- Jennifer Armintrout
Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns. -- Juan Williams
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. -- A. R. Rahman
The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. -- Loudon Wainwright III
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday. -- Charles M. Blow
Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented. -- Birdman
Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death. -- Margaret Mahy
War, misery, and death spared no soul, and took pity on no family. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You never did master a leer.- Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree -- Patricia Sprinkle
Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. -- Peter Kreeft
Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death. -- Katharine Hepburn
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. -- Sam Sheppard
Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats. -- Henry Thomas
Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship. -- Bryant McGill
If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family. -- Etgar Keret
In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies. -- Marcus Luttrell
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. -- P. D. James
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. -- Orlando Bloom
Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget. -- Heather Dorff
Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family. -- George Washington
One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death. -- Charles Wesley
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. -- Robert Benchley
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. -- Erma Bombeck
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Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home. -- Doc Hastings
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. -- Christopher Bond
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. -- Christopher Bond
It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death. -- Misty Upham
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. -- Keith Henson
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. -- Mac Thornberry
They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic." -- Jens Bjørneboe
I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over. -- Dan Barker
As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don't know what tomorrow's going to bring. -- Hulk Hogan
The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death. -- Riane Eisler
With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren. -- Doc Hastings

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