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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Death, Children, Soldiers, Sons

"She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die."

John Green, American Author

Death, Denial, Life, Existence

"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father's paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father's hand. 'What's this?' he asked, raising a brow. 'You'll need it to sign my death certificate, ' I said, pain vibrating my veins against my muscles and bones. 'Are we done now? (Eric)"

Shannon A. Thompson, American Author

Death, Emotion, Despair, Loss, Pain

"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, American Psychologist

Death, Society, Time, Fact

"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Death, Life, Reality, Truth

"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Death, Dying

"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."

John Green, American Author

Death, Learning, Word, Legacy

"Death is not a choice, even for the suicide."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Death, Fate, Control, Life

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"There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God."

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"We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation."

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"Leadership does not depend on being right."

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"Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery."

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"School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them."

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"Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals."

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"At the moment of death I hope to be surprised."

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