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Death Quotes
"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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"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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"The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses."
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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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"It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death."
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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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"The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral."
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"I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent."
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"For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough."
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"Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry."
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"My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes."
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"It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism."
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"I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation."
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"I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death."
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"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
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"The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom."
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"Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death."
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"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
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"The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience."
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"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end."
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"Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner."
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