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Death Quotes
"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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"Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!"
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"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
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"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews."
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"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."
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"The first requisite for immortality is death."
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"To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?"
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"Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is."
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"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."
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"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death."
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"The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit."
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"One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another."
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"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction."
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"Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own."
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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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"The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death."
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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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"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."
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"Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil."
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"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate."
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"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."
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"The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth."
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"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."
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"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."
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