Quotation Explorer - 'Slaying'

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers. - Ambrose Bierce
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests. - Russ Thorne
Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place. - Connie Eble
Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarchists. - Nick La Rocca
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite. - Lao Tzu
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