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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 meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
– Whitfield Diffie
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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 don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
– Dan Farmer
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People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
– Keith Henson
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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 faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
– Dorothy Day
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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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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
– Jose Marti
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Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
– Manny Pacquiao
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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
– Theodor Adorno
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One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.
– Gene Robinson
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One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
– Jeff Goodell
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
– Oscar Wilde
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Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.
– Jerry Seinfeld
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Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.
– John Yoo
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Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
– Kgalema Motlanthe
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
– Hu Shih
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.
– Michael Haneke
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Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
– Johnny Cash
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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
– Aeschylus
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Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.
– Suge Knight
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
– Anne Boleyn
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
– Angela Carter
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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
– John Ralston Saul
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
– David Hume
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
– Jack Kevorkian
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Not even old age knows how to love death.
– Sophocles
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Normality is death.
– Theodor Adorno
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
– Carl Hiaasen
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
– Steve Jobs
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
– Martha Beck
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No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
– Billy Graham
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New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
– Wendell Pierce
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
– Ivan Turgenev
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My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
– Meg Cabot
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
– Dick Gregory
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My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.
– Ronnie Dunn
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My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.
– Meghan O'Rourke
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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
– Elizabeth I
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My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.
– Tommy Rettig
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My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
– Eliza Dushku
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My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
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My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.
– Rufus Sewell
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
– Huey Newton
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My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
– Brooke Shields
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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
– Andrew Cuomo
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My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
– Hugh Leonard
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My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
– Bear Grylls
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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
– Jean Racine
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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
– Alex Campbell
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
– Jack Black
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
– Buffalo Bill
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My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
– Judy Collins
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
– Plato
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
– Orlando Bloom
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
– Polly Toynbee
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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
– Christy Turlington
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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
– John Grisham
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Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
– Elizabeth I
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Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
– Elia Kazan
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
– Jon Stewart
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Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
– Julia Ward Howe
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Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
– Mike Myers
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Many cats are the death of the mouse.
– Kaspar Hauser
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
– Elie Wiesel
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.
– Gilbert Parker
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
– R. D. Laing
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
– Ken Kesey
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
– Anais Nin
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
– Emily Dickinson
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Love has no age, no limit and no death.
– John Galsworthy
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Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
– Emily Mortimer
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Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.
– Peter Conrad
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Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
– Steven Morrissey
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Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
– Steven Patrick Morrissey
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
– Pearl S. Buck
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
– William Goldman
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Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
– Desmond Morris
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