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"I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

"It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently."

"What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations."

"The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud."

"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."

"The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies."

"The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy."

"Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong."

"Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently."

"It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority."
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