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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
– Thomas Paine
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
– Patrick Henry
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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.
– Berenice Abbott
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In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.
– Scott Adams
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
– Joseph Addison
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Death is softer by far than tyranny.
– Aeschylus
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Iraqi fighters in Umm Qasr are giving the hordes of American and Brtish mercenaries the taste of definite death. We have drawn them into a quagmire and they will never get out of it.
– Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory - death.
– William Alexander
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
– Saul Alinsky
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I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
– Woody Allen
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I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.
– Woody Allen
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It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
– Woody Allen
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Marriage is the death of hope.
– Woody Allen
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The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife-a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.
– Woody Allen
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The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
– Woody Allen
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
– Woody Allen
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I answer the heroic question Death, where is they sting? with It is here in my heart and mind and memories.
– Maya Angelou
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
– Jean Anouilh
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
– Jean Anouilh
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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Now among all passions inflicted from without, death holds the first place, just as sexual concupiscences are chief among internal passions. Consequently, when a man conquers death and things directed to death, his is a most perfect victory.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
– Yasser Arafat
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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
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
– Hannah Arendt
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
– Aristotle
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It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
– Thomas Arnold
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I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.
– Beatrice Arthur
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
– Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
– W. H. Auden
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
– Dan Aykroyd
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A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
– Lucius Accius
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We in Holland know the word means a mild death, a dignified death. And therefore we use it.
– Pieter V. Admiraal
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Life is precious to the old person. He is not interested merely in thoughts of yesterday's good life and tomorrow's path to the grave. He does not want his later years to be a sentence of solitary confinement in society. Nor does he want them to be a death watch.
– David Allman
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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
– Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
– John Andre
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.
– Michel Aoun
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And to meet whom did Franklin D Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama.
– Lauren Bacall
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
– Walter Bagehot
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
– Enid Bagnold
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I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
– Tom Baker
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Sometimes when I watch very famous people on television, they make me long for death! These utterly pitiful little exhibitionists who don't nourish anyone but just talk very loudly are now actually guiding us and telling us what to think. I think, 'Well, one day I'll be dead and then I'll get away from you.'
– Tom Baker
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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
– George P. Baker
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
– James A. Baldwin
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I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.
– Stephen Baldwin
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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
– Dave Barry
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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
– Dave Barry
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
– Georges Bataille
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
– Jean Baudrillard
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
– Francis Beaumont
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
– Simone de Beauvoir
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Birth was the death of him.
– Samuel Beckett
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
– Brendan Behan
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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
– Hilaire Belloc
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I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
– Robert Benchley
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
– Jim Bishop
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The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life.
– Jim Bishop
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How shocking must thy summons be, O Death! To him that is at ease in his possessions: Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come!
– Robert Blair
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'Tis long since Death had the majority.
– Robert Blair
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
– William Blake
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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
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
– Erma Bombeck
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.
– Jorge Luis Borges
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If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
– George Borrow
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
– Omar N. Bradley
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One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
– Jeremy Brett
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
– Mel Brooks
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This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
– David Brooks
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This is called the land of the free and the home of the brave; it is called the asylum of the oppressed, and some have been foolish enough to call it the Cradle of Liberty. If it is the Cradle of Liberty, they have rocked the child to death.
– William Wells Brown
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Death is the cure for all diseases.
– Sir Thomas Browne
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
– Sir Thomas Browne
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
– Sir Thomas Browne
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
– William C. Bryant
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
– Buddha
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Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
– Buddha
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I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
– Leo Burnett
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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
– Leo Buscaglia
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
– Samuel Butler
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
– Samuel Butler
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
– Lord Byron
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
– Michelangelo
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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.
– Michelangelo
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It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.
– Brian Baird
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They are both great fans and they have been for years and years. It is a bit more of a social event there and here it is almost kind of like life and death. The fans are really really into it and terribly disappointed when you lose. They are very compassionate about the team and they are very knowledgeable fans here.
– Dusty Baker
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According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful to recur to the ministry of angels, and those other miraculous means which they say God useth to manifest the doctrine and history of Christ's passion unto such, who, living in the places of the world where the outward preaching of the Gospel is unknown, have well improved the first and common grace.
– Robert Barclay
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