"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

Death, Amusement, Race

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"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

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"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."

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"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."

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"I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home."

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"The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine."

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"Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous."

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"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."

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"As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom."

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"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age."

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