"In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse."

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"In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse."

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"It's my life and my death."

Gary Gilmore, American Criminal

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"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

Pat Boone, American Musician

Death,

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Death, Hope, Possessions

"Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die."

Holly Black, American Author

Death, Favor, Mortality, Paradox

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Death, Beauty, Romance, Stillness

"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

Death, Life, Fear, Conscience

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

Death,

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

Rebecca H. Davis, American Author

Death, Guests, May

"You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused."

Eliot Ness, American Public Servant

Death, Nerves, Nothing

"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

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"There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men."

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"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."

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"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

"Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die."

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

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

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

"You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused."

"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

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"As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time."

"It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does."

"There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men."

"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."

"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."

"I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack."

"The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life."

"I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me."

"A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better."

"Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality."