Specific Death Rates

Famous quotes containing the words specific, death and/or rates:

    “I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “I want Death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)