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And while the entire community banded together to search for Kristin desperately, Paul and Ruben Flores did not join in, you will hear Ruben Flores would tear down missing posters of Kristin — tore down her smiling, beautiful face — called her a ‘dirty slut,’ all while her corpse was decomposing underneath his deck. – Deputy District Attorney Christopher Peuvrelle	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I couldn't describe how disgusted I was, and how many times I asked myself am I still a human ? I feel like a walking corpse. Every day I was acting, which person is the real me ? – Peng Shuai	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The defendant deserves a heavy jail term considering the pain the victim must have gone through, the bitter emotion that the victim had to end her life in a foreign country this way, and sadness for the victim's bereaved family who lost their beloved family member, the victim is now returning to her homeland as a corpse. – Judge Kang Dong-hyeok	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Ptolemy stole Alexanders corpse, displaying it publicly, and establishing a link with the legendary figure of the age, during a pause in the wars between Alexanders successors over the tatters of his empire, Ptolemy began to build Alexandria as an eternal home for Alexander. – Professor Howe	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It is unacceptable to treat any corpse this way, even if it is a dead terrorist. – Ahmet Davutoglu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am expecting more cases, we are sure that the body was washed ... so all those who took part in the washing of the corpse, all those who were helping her when she was having wet symptoms would all become infected. – Pallo Conteh	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Jesus did not come back from the grave as a ghost. Nor was it a simple resuscitation of a corpse. Jesus reversed death. – Francis Cardinal George, OMI	added by anonymous 8 years ago
There is no need to panic. The corpse has been buried and our contact tracing has started work. – Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A 17-year-old corpse was tested positive for Ebola virus. This took place in Margibi County. There is no need to panic. The corpse has been buried and our contact tracing has started work. – Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Boys had crazy ideas that after a robbery, when they sleep with an old woman, it's like they are cleansed, the young boys would strangle the cucus ... Every time we went to pick up the corpse of an old woman, my heart used to bleed. – Sheila Kariuki	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He's the most battered corpse on the site, he had the largest number of broken bones. – Andy Boucher	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
(They) burned her and then threw her corpse away in the Kabul River. – The Afghan woman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
He's been badly wounded, probably mortally wounded, today has made him really a political corpse waiting to be cut down. – Norman Abjorensen	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Its a stubborn fly that follows a corpse to the grave! – Pauline Musariri	added by anonymous 9 years ago
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. – Raoul Vaneigem	added by anonymous 9 years ago
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. – Minna Antrim	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power. – Jean Baudrillard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse. – James Cagney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. – Aeschylus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops. – Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse. – Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville	added by anonymous 14 years ago

And while the entire community banded together to search for Kristin desperately, Paul and Ruben Flores did not join in, you will hear Ruben Flores would tear down missing posters of Kristin — tore down her smiling, beautiful face — called her a ‘dirty slut,’ all while her corpse was decomposing underneath his deck.

– Deputy District Attorney Christopher Peuvrelle

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I couldn't describe how disgusted I was, and how many times I asked myself am I still a human ? I feel like a walking corpse. Every day I was acting, which person is the real me ?

– Peng Shuai

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The defendant deserves a heavy jail term considering the pain the victim must have gone through, the bitter emotion that the victim had to end her life in a foreign country this way, and sadness for the victim's bereaved family who lost their beloved family member, the victim is now returning to her homeland as a corpse.

– Judge Kang Dong-hyeok

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Ptolemy stole Alexanders corpse, displaying it publicly, and establishing a link with the legendary figure of the age, during a pause in the wars between Alexanders successors over the tatters of his empire, Ptolemy began to build Alexandria as an eternal home for Alexander.

– Professor Howe

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It is unacceptable to treat any corpse this way, even if it is a dead terrorist.

– Ahmet Davutoglu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am expecting more cases, we are sure that the body was washed ... so all those who took part in the washing of the corpse, all those who were helping her when she was having wet symptoms would all become infected.

– Pallo Conteh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Jesus did not come back from the grave as a ghost. Nor was it a simple resuscitation of a corpse. Jesus reversed death.

– Francis Cardinal George, OMI

added by anonymous
8 years ago

There is no need to panic. The corpse has been buried and our contact tracing has started work.

– Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A 17-year-old corpse was tested positive for Ebola virus. This took place in Margibi County. There is no need to panic. The corpse has been buried and our contact tracing has started work.

– Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Boys had crazy ideas that after a robbery, when they sleep with an old woman, it's like they are cleansed, the young boys would strangle the cucus ... Every time we went to pick up the corpse of an old woman, my heart used to bleed.

– Sheila Kariuki

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He's the most battered corpse on the site, he had the largest number of broken bones.

– Andy Boucher

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

(They) burned her and then threw her corpse away in the Kabul River.

– The Afghan woman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

He's been badly wounded, probably mortally wounded, today has made him really a political corpse waiting to be cut down.

– Norman Abjorensen

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Its a stubborn fly that follows a corpse to the grave!

– Pauline Musariri

added by anonymous
9 years ago

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

– Raoul Vaneigem

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

– Alexander Herzen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

– Minna Antrim

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

– Jean Baudrillard

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.

– James Cagney

added by anonymous
13 years ago

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

– Aeschylus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

– Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

– Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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