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Death Quotes


"But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate."


"It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures."


"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer."


"I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year."


"I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row."


"But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes."


"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."


"The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death."


"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."


"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."


"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."


"The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma."


"Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death."


"All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death."


"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."


"The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest."


"The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death."


"I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians."


"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."


"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."


"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life."


"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."


"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."
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