"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes."

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"For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

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"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

John Pearson, British Theologian

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"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

Millicent Fawcett, British Activist

Death, Women, Life, Mind

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

Death, Graduation, Balloons, Children

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

Omar N. Bradley, American Soldier

Death, Bravery

"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Death, Memory, Grief, Love

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."

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"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."

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"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"

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"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"

Time

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."

Family

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."

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"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."

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"For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits."

"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

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"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."

"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."

"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"

"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."

"My first recollection is that of a bugle call."

"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding."

"Americans never quit."

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"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."