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" All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. "

Maurice Maeterlinck

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" Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. "

" Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death. "

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" On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . "

" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "

W. Somerset Maugham

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Maggie Stiefvater

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" 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? "

Richard LaGravenese

" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene. "

" I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. "

Benjamin Franklin

" I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. "

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John Greenleaf Whittier

" We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. "

Matthew Simpson

" It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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" The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life? "

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" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "

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" Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it. "