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Death Quotes
"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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"I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?"
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"I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something."
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"Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns."
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"The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people."
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"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."
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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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"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality."
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"There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death."
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"The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death."
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"I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it."
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"The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up."
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"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."
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"The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns."
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"I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging."
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"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."
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"So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here."
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"Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash."
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"The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death."
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"There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."
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"Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level."
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"Life is but a moment, death also is but another."
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"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."
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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
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"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."
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"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making."
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
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"The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit."
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"I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had."
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"One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another."
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