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" There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. "
Roger Ebert
Death
You
Nothing
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" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "
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" I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. "
Paulo Coelho
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" Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously. "
Jane Green
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Then
" Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand. "
Yolanda Hadid
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" The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. "
Lew Wallace
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" My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' "
Roger Ebert
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" I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. "
Stephen Hawking
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" Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. "
Ruth Ann Minner
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" It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. "
John Steinbeck
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" To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death. "
John Burroughs
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" I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life. "
Tony Harrison
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" Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. "
Alvar N. C. de Vaca
Sea
Trust
Water
" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "
Oscar Wilde
Facts
Explain
Death
" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Advice
Death
Nothing
" Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service. "
Gnash
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" Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.' "
Dolly Parton
Broken
Love
Heart
" Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. "
Buddha
Death
Even
Fear
" It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. "
Marcus Aurelius
Live
Fear
Never
" Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. "
Khalil Gibran
Death
Own
Land
" Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. "
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Moment
Peaceful
Death
" Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. "
Ernest Hemingway
Exact
Wealth
Proportion
" One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death. "
Enzo Ferrari
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Keep
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" My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death. "
Sebastian Horsley
Life
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" We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. "
Yitzhak Rabin
Our
Enemies
Death
" Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. "
Katherine Dunn
Research
Death
Medical
" I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. "
Francis Bacon
Death
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Only
" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "
W. H. Auden
Guts
Words
Death
" The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. "
Mark Twain
Man
Die
Time
" Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. "
Tryon Edwards
Death
Like
End
" There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. "
Noam Chomsky
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War
Republican