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Death Quotes
"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
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"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony."
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"I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that."
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"But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration."
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"Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?"
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"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."
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"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."
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"There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place."
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"Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it."
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"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down ."
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"The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes."
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"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."
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"For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off."
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"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
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"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."
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"To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death."
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"There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly."
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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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"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"
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"Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?"
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"I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death."
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"Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event."
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"If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway."
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"Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row."
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"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."
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"Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death."
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"Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?"
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"I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt."
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"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any."
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