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" Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

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" To some extent I liken slavery to death. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. "

" Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. "

" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "

Guillermo del Toro

" No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. "

" Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial. "

Howard Jacobson

" The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat. "

" Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. "

Albert Einstein

" Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. "

" If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. "

" We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. "

Charles de Montesquieu

" Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. "

" You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. "

Michael Eric Dyson

" Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. "

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

" The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. "

" Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. "

Ernst Moritz Arndt

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. "

" Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. "

" The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary. "

" Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. "

" 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! "

Luigi Pirandello

" I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. "

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

" In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. "

" The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. "

" The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life. "

Russell M. Nelson

" Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. "

Theodore Roosevelt