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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. "

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" Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. "

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Death

" And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Odds

Die

" You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. "

" Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. "

" I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970. "

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

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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" Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. "

" Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them. "

" It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. "

" Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. "

" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. "

" Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! "

" The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions. "

" As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking. "

" On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sun

Death

Man

" To some extent I liken slavery to death. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Death

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" My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax. "

" Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. "

" Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. "

" Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character. "

" I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. "

" My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. "

" Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. "

" My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law. "

" Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. "

Alfred North Whitehead

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Death

Ignorance

" I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. "

" I know there are people who do not quite agree with the division of India and the partition of the Punjab and Bengal. Much has been said against it, but now that it has been accepted, it is the duty of every one of us to loyally abide by it and honourably act according to the agreement which is now final and binding on all. "

" Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. "

" In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. "