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Famous last words of 18 famous people
Business Insider ^ | 10/13/2015 | Elena Holodny

Posted on 10/13/2015 7:42:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

People have always been fascinated by the last words of others.

Perhaps they hold a touch of wisdom, or a final joke, or even confirmation of who's getting what in the will.

In light of that, Business Insider put together a list of the reported last words of 18 famous historical figures.

Check them out below.

1. Karl Marx, philosopher.

"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

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2. Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist. Nobel Prize winner.

"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."

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3. Archimedes, mathematician.

"Stand away, fellow, from my diagram!"

Archimedes was killed during the Second Punic War. According to the historian Plutarch, a soldier reportedly came up to the mathematician and told him to go with him to Marcellus. Archimedes, however, refused to do so until he finished the problem he was working on. Enraged, the soldier killed him.

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4. Napoléon Bonaparte, French military and political leader.

"France, the army, the head of the army, Joséphine."

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5. Humphrey Bogart, actor.

"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."

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To: TexasRepublic

I was watching Missouri Breaks last night ... the Regulator (Marlon Brando) carried a Whitworth


61 posted on 10/13/2015 10:08:44 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Let’s Roll”


62 posted on 10/13/2015 10:08:44 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Mohammed's last words...

"I feel heat...see fire coming...and..OH NO!!!...it smells like PIGSHIITE!!!"
63 posted on 10/13/2015 10:09:42 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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1. Karl Marx, philosopher the original commie b@$t@rd and tyrant wannabe.
64 posted on 10/13/2015 10:23:14 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SeekAndFind; Whenifhow; GregNH; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

ping


65 posted on 10/15/2017 8:21:23 AM PDT by bitt (The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literal)
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"Tell Hill he must come up. Strike the tent,"

-- Gen. Robt. E. Lee.

66 posted on 10/15/2017 8:30:05 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” - Sir Isaac Newton


67 posted on 10/15/2017 8:47:17 AM PDT by Gideon7
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To: SeekAndFind

To the family - Oy vey, I told you you would be the death of me.


68 posted on 10/15/2017 8:53:48 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: dfwgator

“Relax you guys, it ain’t even loaded. See?”


69 posted on 10/15/2017 9:00:29 AM PDT by OKSooner (RIP Joan Rivers)
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Moonshiner, Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton put it best in his last words to the Feds and the ATF in particular (now inscribed on his footstone)( Warning strong language):

Popcorn grave

More about "Popcorn" Sutton here:

Popcorn Sutton: The Last Moonshiner

70 posted on 10/15/2017 2:53:41 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing.)
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Jesus on the cross but his last words before his ascension in Acts 1:
7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”


71 posted on 10/15/2017 3:45:59 PM PDT by xp38
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