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Letter "E" » eulogies
«A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.»
«According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.»
Author: Jerry Seinfeld
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Actor,
Comedian)
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Death and dying,
Fear,
Speech
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«One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.»
«I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
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Author,
Journalist,
Political analyst)
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The Fog
«Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.»
«The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.»
«I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.»
«No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.»
«Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.»
«Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity»