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Death Quotes
"Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?"
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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
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"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling."
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"There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."
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"One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet."
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"Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death."
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"For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death."
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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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"All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death."
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"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."
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"The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest."
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"Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you."
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"Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother."
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"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."
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"Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it."
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"The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries."
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"A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal."
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"I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?"
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"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."
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"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."
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"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you."
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"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
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"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
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"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."
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"The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead."
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"Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side."
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"May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter."
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"Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible."
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"A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure."
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"The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death."
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"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back."
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"The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life."
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"It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue."
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