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Death Quotes
"Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable."
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"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
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"Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia."
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"We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"
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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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"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."
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"Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will."
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"Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow."
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"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
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"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life."
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"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life."
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"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."
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"They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."
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"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die."
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"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."
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"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."
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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
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"In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character."
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"I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death."
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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
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"After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?"
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