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"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life."
Jeanne Moreau
"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life."
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"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
Tennessee Williams
"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
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"Many cats are the death of the mouse."
Kaspar Hauser
"Many cats are the death of the mouse."
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"One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated."
Jeremy Brett
"One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated."
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"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."
Jean Cocteau
"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."
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"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."
Henry Ellis
"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."
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"Marriage is the death of hope."
Woody Allen
"Marriage is the death of hope."
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"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death."
Angela Davis
"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death."
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"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."
Stanislav Grof
"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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"Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death."
Angela Carter
"Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death."
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"I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."
Harry A. Blackmun
"I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."
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"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
Rollo May
"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
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"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die."
Jerry Garcia
"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die."
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"Death just shouldn't be a taxable event."
Dennis Hastert
"Death just shouldn't be a taxable event."
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"I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death."
David Blaine
"I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death."
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"The death of the forest is the end of our life."
Dorothy Stang
"The death of the forest is the end of our life."
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"I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain."
John Elway
"I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain."
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"For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death."
Nat King Cole
"For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved 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."
Donna Shalala
"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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"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it."
Bruce Jackson
"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it."
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"Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence."
Oliver Joseph Lodge
"Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence."
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"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."
Horace
"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."
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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."
Mike Fitzpatrick
"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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"The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states."
Burke Marshall
"The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states."
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"The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever."
Georg Buchner
"The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever."
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"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."
John Millington Synge
"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."
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"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."
James Weldon Johnson
"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."
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"I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot."
James Spader
"I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot."
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"I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas."
John Sherman Cooper
"I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas."
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"Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax."
Michael Steele
"Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax."
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"Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt."
Suge Knight
"Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt."
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"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
Len G. Murray
"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
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"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks."
Eric Sevareid
"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks."
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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
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"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."
Robert Bolt
"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."
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"AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected."
Luc Montagnier
"AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected."
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"The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy."
Kit Bond
"The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy."
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"And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment."
Donald Evans
"And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment."
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"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
Fidel Castro
"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
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"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit."
Christian Lous Lange
"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit."
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"At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it."
Oliver Reed
"At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it."
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"The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration."
Carol P. Christ
"The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration."
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"I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition."
Mercedes McCambridge
"I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition."
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"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."
Edward Young
"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."
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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."
Stanislav Grof
"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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"For me, habit is just a synonym for death."
Juliette Binoche
"For me, habit is just a synonym for death."
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"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."
Lena Horne
"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."
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"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."
William J. Brennan
"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."
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"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."
Hesiod
"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."
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"I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?"
Guru Nanak
"I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?"
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