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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
– Joseph Hall
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Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.
– Ahmed Yassin
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Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.
– Rick Perry
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.
– Wesley Morris
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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
– Heinrich Heine
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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 Jr.
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Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
– Stanislav Grof
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Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
– Ray Comfort
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Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.
– Julie Benz
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But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
– Emma Thompson
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But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
– Herbie Mann
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
– Theodore Bikel
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But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
– Tom Waits
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
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But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
– Joseph Rotblat
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But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
– Liam Neeson
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
– Don Van Vliet
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But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.
– Donna Shalala
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
– Ingrid Newkirk
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
– Ernest Hemingway
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
– Bodhidharma
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
– Oscar Wilde
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Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
– Curt Schilling
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
– Julia Sweeney
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
– Oliver Reed
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At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
– Ivan Illich
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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
– Jessica Lange
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As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
– Douglas Horton
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
– Blaise Pascal
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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?
– Chanakya
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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
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As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
– Jeanne Moreau
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As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
– Tom Araya
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As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don't know what tomorrow's going to bring.
– Hulk Hogan
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As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
– Josh McDowell
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
– Maurice Sendak
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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
– Alexei Sayle
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Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
– Carter Burwell
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Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
– Emmylou Harris
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Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
– Layne Staley
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And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
– Nigella Lawson
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And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
– Lynn Redgrave
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And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
– Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
– Bodhidharma
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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
– Jose Marti
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An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
– Stanislav Grof
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An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
– Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
– Jeanne Moreau
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
– Isabel Allende
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
– Thomas Mann
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All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.
– Katie Price
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
– Jaron Lanier
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A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
– Jean Racine
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A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
– Stanislav Grof
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
– Andrew Coyle Bradley
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A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
– Robert Benchley
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A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
– Stanislav Grof
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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
– Jesse Jackson
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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
– Jesse Jackson
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A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
– Lewis Thomas
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A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!
– Sonia Johnson
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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
– Robert Browning
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
– Imran Khan
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
– Barbara Corcoran
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
– Marquis de Sade
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'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
– Michael Sheen
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'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
– Rob Sheffield
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We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.
– Halford E. Luccock
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