Death
On June 15, 1936, at the age of 67, Moore was shot to death on the lawn of his home in East Orange, New Jersey, by an unemployed inventor who became enraged after finding that an invention he filed for, was already the subject of a patent granted to Moore.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.”
—Emma Goldman (18691940)
“Ai! ai! we do worse! We are in a fix! And youre out, Death let
you out, Death had the Mercy, youre done with your century, done with God, done with the path thru it”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep,that death is slumber,
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
Of those who wake and live.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)