“Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.”

— Tim Powers , book Declare

Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)

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Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Raven's Shadow

“Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U. S. empire”

Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela

Hugo Chávez on the Islamic Republic Medal ceremony at Tehran University in Iran. July 30th, 2006. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/30/D8J6NURG0.html
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“Let the business of the world take care of itself … My business is to get the world saved”

William Booth (1829–1912) British Methodist preacher

"The Risks" in The War Cry (20 December 1884)
Context: Let the business of the world take care of itself … My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.

“The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.”

James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) Poet

Quoted by Louis Untermeyer in Modern British Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=GiwMAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+poet's+business%22+%22is+not+to+save+the+soul+of+man+but+to+make+it+worth+saving%22&pg=PA178#v=onepage (1920)

“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

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A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: If I May

“A dinner lubricates business.”

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell (1745–1836) British politician

As quoted in Life of Johnson (1791) by James Boswell, Vol. viii., p. 67, note.

“Who saves his country, saves himself, saves all things, and all things saved do bless him! Who lets his country die, lets all things die, dies himself ignobly, and all things dying curse him!”

Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823–1882) American politician

Reported in Benjamin H. Hill, Jr., Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia; His Life, Speeches and Writings (1893), epigraph, p. 594. From "Notes on the Situation", a series of articles appearing in the Chronicle and Sentinel, Atlanta, Georgia.

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“The dying process begins the minute you are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.”

Carol Grace (1924–2003) American actress

As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 80

“The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

Norman Vincent Peale book The Power of Positive Thinking

Variant: The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.”

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