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Inactivity is death.
– Benito Mussolini
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
– Daniel Boone
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In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
– Jonathan Larson
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
– Henry Miller
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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
– Anne Frank
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In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
– Tom Robbins
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
– Alfred Russel Wallace
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In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
– Carol P. Christ
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In every parting there is an image of death.
– George Eliot
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In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
– Mason Cooley
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In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
– Ville Valo
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
– Alexander Smith
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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
– Antonin Scalia
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If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
– Dean Smith
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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
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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
– Eric Cantona
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If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.
– Bill Parcells
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If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
– Scott Caan
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If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
– Tupac Shakur
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If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
– Marilyn Manson
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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
– J. B. Priestley
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If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
– Maya Lin
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If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
– David Mitchell
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If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
– Robin Gibb
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
– Mel Brooks
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
– Martin Heidegger
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If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
– Paul Lynde
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
– Samuel Butler
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
– Sachin Tendulkar
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If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.
– George Saunders
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
– Jack Kevorkian
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
– Joseph Stalin
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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
– James Dean
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
– Sam Snead
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I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
– Mitt Romney
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I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.
– Mercedes McCambridge
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I'm working myself to death.
– Alan Ladd
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I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.
– John Elway
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I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.
– Hugh Hefner
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
– Jack Kevorkian
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I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.
– Russell Crowe
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I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
– Daniel Radcliffe
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I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
– Anthony Hopkins
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I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
– Carl Lewis
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
– Fiona Shaw
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I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
– Stephen Hawking
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I'm more afraid of marriage than death.
– Shakira
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
– Jack Nicholson
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I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
– Marcia Wallace
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I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.
– Paula Deen
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I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
– Joaquin Phoenix
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I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
– Corazon Aquino
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I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
– Muqtada al Sadr
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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
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
– William Shakespeare
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I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
– Deepak Chopra
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I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
– John Cleese
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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
– Damien Hirst
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
– Dave Grohl
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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
– Paulo Coelho
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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?
– Debra Winger
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I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
– Margot Kidder
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I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
– Billy Corgan
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I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
– Jesse Jackson
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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
– Emma Thompson
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I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
– Ani Difranco
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
– J. J. Abrams
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
– Karlie Kloss
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I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
– Laura Linney
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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
– John Hodgman
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I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death, not youth.
– John Thorn
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I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!
– Jamie Foxx
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
– Rachel McAdams
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I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
– Tim Kaine
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I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'
– Jenny Eclair
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I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
– Ryan Gosling
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I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
– Kate Atkinson
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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
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I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
– Peter Steele
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I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.
– David Ortiz
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I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.
– Luke Scott
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I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
– Jason Reitman
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
– Thomas Hobbes
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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
– Giuseppe Garibaldi
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I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
– Thomas Francis Meagher
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
– Paul McCartney
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
– A. N. Wilson
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
– Jerry Garcia
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I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
– Elton John
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I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
– Steven Patrick Morrissey
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
– Desmond Tutu
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I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
– Jo Brand
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
– Barbara Corcoran
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I looked Death right in the face.
– Travis Barker
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I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
– Billy Graham
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
– Quentin Tarantino
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I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
– Courtney Love
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I like death. I'm a big fan of it.
– Guy Ritchie
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I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.
– Harvey Weinstein
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