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" Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. "

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" Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. "

" Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over. "

" I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel. "

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

Bryant H. McGill

" 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

" Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. "

" When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. "

" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "

" It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible. "

" Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album. "

" Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside. "

" Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. "

Rosalind Russell

" I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. "

" Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

" My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father. "

" In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born. "

Michael Ashcroft

" 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. "

" Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker. "

" Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. "

" We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death. "

Henry B. Eyring

" For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me. "

" When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. "

Marlene Dietrich

" Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. "

" You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. "

" I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. "

" Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. "