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Death Quotes
"The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death."
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"The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants."
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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."
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"Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."
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"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."
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"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."
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"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."
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"Immortality - a fate worse than 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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"In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system."
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"That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death."
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"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."
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"We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death."
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"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."
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"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."
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"To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure."
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"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."
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"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide."
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"To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death."
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"Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on."
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"Belief is the death of intelligence."
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"Living well is dying well."
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"I heard death had a name, but I forgot what it was."
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"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate."
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"He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivisible and indissoluble. The presence of the girl was pathetic (a few caresses and a lot of meaningless words), but her absolute absence was infinitely grand; when he imagined a girl buried in a field, he suddenly discovered the nobility of pain and the grandeur of love. But it was not only the absolute but also bliss he was looking for in his dreams of death."
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"Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death."
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