"Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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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

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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

Buddha, Indian Leader

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

John Green, American Author

Death, Denial, Life, Existence

"When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moment, past, present, future, always have existed, always will exist."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"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

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"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

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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."

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

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

"When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moment, past, present, future, always have existed, always will exist."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."

"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."

"If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference."

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