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Death Quotes
"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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"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
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"The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death."
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"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave."
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"Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it."
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"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
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"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
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"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."
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"I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old."
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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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"The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth."
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"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation."
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"Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared."
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"Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons."
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"The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom."
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"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."
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"Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst."
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"For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death."
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"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."
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"Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference."
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
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"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
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"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
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"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."
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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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"Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?"
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"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."
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