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"But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way."

Herbie Mann, American Musician

Death, People, Fear, Negative

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"But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way."

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Aeschylus, Greek Poet

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

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"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

Millicent Fawcett, British Activist

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"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

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"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes."

Robert Bolt, British Playwright

"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."

"Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love."

"You don't have to live the blues to play the blues."

"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."

"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."

"The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian."

"By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together."

"The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work."

"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania."

"My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus."

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