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"One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another."
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"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life."
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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."
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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."
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"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death."
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"I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us."
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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
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"Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest."
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"Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder."
Politics

"I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me."
Time

"One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another."
Death

"Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins."
Society

"Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us."
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