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"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."
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"I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying."
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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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"That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices."
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"Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows."
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"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."
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"My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building."
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"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
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"People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear."
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"I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death."
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"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."
Man
"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Happiness
"Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge."
History
"I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good."
People
"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know."
Success
"Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it."
Death
"History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting."
History
"I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy."
History
"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."
Movies
"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."
History
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