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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
– Jose Marti
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Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
– Manny Pacquiao
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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
– Theodor Adorno
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
– Oscar Wilde
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Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.
– Jerry Seinfeld
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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
– Hu Shih
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.
– Michael Haneke
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Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
– Johnny Cash
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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
– Aeschylus
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Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.
– Suge Knight
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
– Anne Boleyn
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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
– Ernst Moritz Arndt
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
– Angela Carter
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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
– John Ralston Saul
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
– David Hume
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
– Jack Kevorkian
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Normality is death.
– Theodor Adorno
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
– Carl Hiaasen
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
– Billy Graham
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
– Ivan Turgenev
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
– Dick Gregory
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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
– Elizabeth I
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My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
– Huey Newton
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My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
– Brooke Shields
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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
– Andrew Cuomo
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My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
– Hugh Leonard
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My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
– Bear Grylls
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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
– Jean Racine
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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
– Alex Campbell
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
– Jack Black
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
– Buffalo Bill
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My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
– Judy Collins
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
– Plato
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
– Orlando Bloom
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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
– Christy Turlington
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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
– John Grisham
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Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
– Elizabeth I
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Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
– Elia Kazan
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
– Jon Stewart
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Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
– Mike Myers
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
– Elie Wiesel
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.
– Gilbert Parker
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
– R. D. Laing
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
– Ken Kesey
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
– Anais Nin
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
– Emily Dickinson
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Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
– Emily Mortimer
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Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
– Steven Morrissey
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Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
– Steven Patrick Morrissey
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
– Pearl S. Buck
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
– William Goldman
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Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
– Desmond Morris
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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
– Robert H. Schuller
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
– Vladimir Nabokov
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
– Henry James
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
– Anais Nin
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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
– Gloria Swanson
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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
– Bodhidharma
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
– Jorge Luis Borges
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Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.
– Giada De Laurentiis
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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
– Isaiah Berlin
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
– Harry Browne
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
– Samuel Butler
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
– Quintus Ennius
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Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
– Layne Staley
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Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
– Jeanne Moreau
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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
– Ron Paul
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
– Thomas Francis Meagher
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It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.
– Travis Barker
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It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.
– Bernhard Langer
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It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.
– George Osborne
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
– Jeanne Moreau
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
– Garrett Hedlund
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It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
– Giancarlo Esposito
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It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
– Gloria Steinem
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
– Wangari Maathai
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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
– Anna Akhmatova
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
– John Steinbeck
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
– Charles de Gaulle
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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
– Henry Fielding
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
– Gertrude Stein
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It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
– Donald Cargill
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It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
– Christy Turlington
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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
– Jim Carrey
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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
– Eric Hoffer
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
– Wendell Berry
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It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
– Jacqueline Cochran
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
– Karen Armstrong
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
– Albert Einstein
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
– Lorna Luft
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Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
– Stanislav Grof
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