"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Physicist

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"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Our life is made by the death of others."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

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"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."

David Mamet, American Dramatist

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"I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God."

Timothy Radcliffe, English Clergyman

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"Believe in me and you shall die, forever."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

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"Our life is made by the death of others."

"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

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"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

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"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it."

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"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."