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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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" I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. "

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" Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. "

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" The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies. "

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" The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. "

" The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty. "

" Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. "

" When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. "

" The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success. "

" Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. "

Theodor W. Adorno

" The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? "

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" Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. "

Emily Dickinson

" Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. "

Terry Pratchett

" There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. "

" Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death. "

" Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' "

Christopher Hitchens

" Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. "

" I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. "

Stephen Leacock

" I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. "

" I always say, complacency is the kiss of death. "

" Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. "

" Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child. "

" I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. "

" Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. "

" The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. "

" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "

" Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. "

" Diabetes can be successfully prevented and managed by a healthy lifestyle. When not managed, it can lead to severe organ damage and death. "