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The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
– Kevin Smith
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
– Florence Nightingale
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
– Paula Poundstone
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
– David Byrne
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
– Laura Linney
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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
– Henry Miller
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The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
– Deepak Chopra
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
– Jack Kevorkian
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The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
– Stanislav Grof
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
– William Shakespeare
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The sole equality on earth is death.
– Philip James Bailey
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
– Bertrand Russell
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The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.
– Cynthia McKinney
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The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
– Paul McCartney
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The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!
– Heather Mills
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
– Will Rogers
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The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
– Andrew Cuomo
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The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
– Stanislav Grof
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
– George Meredith
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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
– Theodore Parker
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The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
– Rush Limbaugh
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The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
– Stanislav Grof
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
– E. M. Forster
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
– Bear Grylls
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The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
– Stanislav Grof
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The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.
– Robin Gibb
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The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
– Terry Pratchett
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
– Samuel Butler
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.
– Wilbur Smith
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The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
– Deepak Chopra
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The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
– Stanislav Grof
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The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
– Dennis Prager
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The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
– Stanislav Grof
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The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
– Anne Lamott
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The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.
– Paul Gascoigne
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The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
– Maurice Sendak
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
– Damien Hirst
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The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
– Louis Farrakhan
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
– Bianca Jagger
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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
– Arlo Guthrie
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
– Kate Atkinson
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The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.
– George Sewell
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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
– William Lloyd Garrison
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
– Hermann Hesse
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
– A. N. Wilson
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The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
– J. D. Hayworth
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
– Sting
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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
– Friedrich Schiller
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
– Amelia Barr
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Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
– Lee Iacocca
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Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
– George Whitefield
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Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
– Kevin Spacey
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Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.
– Jane Smiley
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
– Bill Shankly
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So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.
– Theresa May
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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
– Laurence Sterne
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
– Alastair Campbell
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So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
– Buffalo Bill
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Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
– Damien Hirst
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Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
– Al Goldstein
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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
– Edvard Munch
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
– Carl Jung
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Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
– Giacomo Casanova
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She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.
– Helena Bonham Carter
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See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.
– Moses Malone
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Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
– Francois Rabelais
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Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
– Cat Stevens
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Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
– Stanislav Grof
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
– Steve Jobs
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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
– Sun Tzu
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
– Xun Zi
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
– Sun Tzu
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
– Samuel Johnson
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
– John Thorn
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
– Carl Sagan
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Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
– Brad Pitt
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
– Anna Deavere Smith
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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
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People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.
– David Duchovny
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People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
– Eddie Vedder
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People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
– Alveda King
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
– E. M. Forster
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
– Taylor Caldwell
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People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.
– Jessica Simpson
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Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
– Frederick Buechner
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Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
– John Stossel
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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
– Horace
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Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.
– Daniel H. Wilson
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Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
– Blaise Pascal
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
– Victor Hugo
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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
– Eliot Spitzer
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
– Edward Young
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
– Ron White
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
– Socrates
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