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Death Quotes
"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide."
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"Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it."
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"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
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"I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death."
71
"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."
71
"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies."
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"That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death."
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"In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death."
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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."
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"Belief is the death of intelligence."
59
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
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"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."
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"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms."
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"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."
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"The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions."
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"The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death."
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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
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"I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century."
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"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."
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"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."
55
"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."
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"The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level."
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