"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

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"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Dying, Merit

"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger."

Tom Holt, British Novelist

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"I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying."

Star Jones, American Entertainer

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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

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"Just dying should not be a reason for taxes."

Todd Akin, American Politician

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"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple."

Damien Hirst, British Artist

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"I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry."

Michael Landon, American Actor

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"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

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"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

Being

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."

Life

"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

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"Only he deserves power who every day justifies it."

Power

"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."

History

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Life

"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

Happiness

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

Friendship

"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

History

"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."

Nothing