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Death Quotes
"Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will."
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"I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry."
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"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers."
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"At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death."
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"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths."
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"The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed."
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"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
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"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"
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"For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life."
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"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."
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"To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death."
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"A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week."
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"We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot."
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"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
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"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."
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"In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system."
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"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."
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"The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth."
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"Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life."
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"Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness."
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"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."
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