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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    (March comes) in like a lion, (and goes) out like a lamb; In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king; In the midst of life, we are in death; Into every life a little rain must fall; It ain't over till/until it's over; It ain't over till the fat lady sings; It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.

  3. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    "These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." [40] — William James, American philosopher and psychologist (26 August 1910) The funeral of Jorge Chávez in Paris. "Higher. Always higher." [10] [21] ("Arriba. Siempre arriba.")

  4. Resurrection - Wikipedia

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    Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions involving the same person or deity returning to another body. The disappearance of a body is another similar but distinct belief in some religions.

  5. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    On the wrong side of the grass Dead Euphemistic slang Refers to the practice of burying the dead. Such individuals are below the grass as opposed to above it, hence being on the "wrong side". One's hour has come [1] About to die Literary: One's number is up [1] One is going to die Slang: Oofed To die Humorous

  6. Google (verb) - Wikipedia

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    The first recorded usage of google was as a gerund, on July 8, 1998, by Google co-founder Larry Page himself, who wrote on a mailing list: "Have fun and keep googling!". [7] Its earliest known use as an explicitly transitive verb on American television was in the "Help" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (October 15, 2002), when Willow asked Buffy, "Have you googled her yet?".

  7. Satiric misspelling - Wikipedia

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    2008 protest against the Church of Scientology, spelling the organization's name with a dollar sign instead of an "S". A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose.

  8. Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    However, according to Nonnus, "where his limbs had been cut piecemeal by the Titan steel, the end of his life was the beginning of a new life as Dionysos." He began to change into many different forms in which he returned the attack, including Zeus, Cronus , a baby, and "a mad youth with the flower of the first down marking his rounded chin ...

  9. List of Latin phrases (M) - Wikipedia

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    mindful of things done, aware of things to come: Thus, both remembering the past and foreseeing the future. From the North Hertfordshire District Council coat of arms. Memoriae Sacrum (M.S.) Sacred to the Memory (of ...) A common first line on 17th-century English church monuments. The Latinized name of the deceased follows, in the genitive case.