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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

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" Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. "

Emily Dickinson

" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "

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" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "

" When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday. "

" Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. "

Fulton J. Sheen

" My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar. "

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" If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day. "

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" There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. "

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" Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. "

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" Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. "

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