"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."

Death, Life, People, Opportunity

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"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

Stephen King, American Author

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"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Easter is the final solution to the finality of death."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country."

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"We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world."

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"The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement."

Agreement, Economy, Germany

"That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement."

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"Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies."

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"Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them."

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"Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace."

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"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."

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"It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations."

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"The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau."

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