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" As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. "

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" Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. "

" Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. "

James Anthony Froude

" A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. "

Stanley Hauerwas

" Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. "

" Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. "

" It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. "

Alexandre Dumas

" I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year. "

" I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough. "

Anthony Hopkins

" Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. "

" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "

" Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive. "

" Nothing in life is promised except death. "

" I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals. "

" I don't like fashion. It's very heartless. "

" Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. "

Edgar Allan Poe

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" We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. "

Robert Falcon Scott

" How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony. "

" 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

" I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything. "

" Death is very often referred to as a good career move. "

" Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. "

" 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. "

" For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

" Death is not the worst that can happen to men. "

" Death is not the end; it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science - constant and eternal seeking. "

" It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. "

" Biography lends to death a new terror. "