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"I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people."
Tom Baker
"I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people."
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"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."
Thomas Wolfe
"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."
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"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."
Jack Kevorkian
"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."
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"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
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"To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure."
J. K. Rowling
"To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure."
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"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
James Anthony Froude
"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
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"The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus."
Ken Calvert
"The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus."
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"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
Wilson Mizner
"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
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"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."
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"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."
Terry Pratchett
"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."
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"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death."
Morgan Freeman
"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death."
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"The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma."
Jef I. Richards
"The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma."
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"I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death."
Howard Stern
"I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death."
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"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."
Edna Ferber
"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."
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"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."
Mel Brooks
"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."
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"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."
Johnny Carson
"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."
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"Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies."
Alex Winter
"Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies."
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"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety."
Joe Moore
"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety."
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"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."
Tryon Edwards
"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."
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"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite."
Taylor Caldwell
"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite."
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"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."
Edmund Spenser
"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."
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"As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death."
Paul Simon
"As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death."
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"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."
Polly Toynbee
"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."
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"Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble."
Michael Cacoyannis
"Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble."
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"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."
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"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
Hannah Arendt
"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
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"The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed."
Mike Fitzpatrick
"The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed."
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"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."
John Millington Synge
"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."
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"Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally."
Victoria de los Angeles
"Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally."
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"And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment."
Bodhidharma
"And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment."
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"Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap."
Daniel Berrigan
"Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap."
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"Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax."
Michael Steele
"Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax."
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"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
Jean Cocteau
"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
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"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."
Robert Bolt
"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."
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"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit."
Christian Lous Lange
"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit."
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"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."
William J. Brennan
"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."
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"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."
Pope John Paul II
"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."
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"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."
Stanislav Grof
"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."
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"I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death."
Walter Reisch
"I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death."
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"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."
Charles de Montesquieu
"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."
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"His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad."
Red Skelton
"His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad."
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"We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot."
John Phillips
"We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot."
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"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs."
Thomas Kyd
"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs."
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"Normality is death."
Theodor Adorno
"Normality is death."
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"I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end."
Pope John XXIII
"I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end."
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"I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority."
Michael Baden
"I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority."
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"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."
David Herbert Lawrence
"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."
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"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."
Ryszard Kapuscinski
"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."
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"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."
Rex Hunt
"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."
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"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony."
Jack Kevorkian
"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony."
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