He says often people only say good things about a person when they are dead, in eulogies.

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Many eulogies will be written for Steve Jobs as the cofounder and (some say) savior of Apple.

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This, at Lady Thatcher's personal request, is a funeral service, not a Memorial Service with the customary eulogies.

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All this came out in one of the eulogies when a family friend read aloud his college application.

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He was, as the eulogies and obituaries portrayed him, a considerate, straightforward individual, with core values of honesty and courage.

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After delivering pro forma eulogies for Mr. Rubio, Democrats in Sacramento chose Kern County supervisor Leticia Perez to run for his vacated seat.

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All these near eulogies are a little disturbing, but any retail reporter would be remiss in failing to note how Apple revolutionized the retail industry.

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The Mongolian Tuuli is an oral tradition comprising heroic epics that run from hundreds to thousands of lines and combine benedictions, eulogies, spells, idiomatic phrases, fairy tales, myths and folk songs.

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Two ministers one Methodist, one Baptist, delivered eulogies.

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It was therefore fitting that Jim received his eulogies in the church made famous by a preacher who believed that when God gave us the gifts of curiosity, inventiveness and salesmanship He wanted us to apply them productively.

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