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" Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. "

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" A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. "

" I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal. "

" Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' "

" The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. "

Theodore Parker

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Ernst Moritz Arndt

" Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not. "

" The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt. "

" Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. "

" As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. "

" He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. "

" I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. "

Stephen Hawking

" There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now. "

" In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. "

" Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends. "

" When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. "

John Greenleaf Whittier

" All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. "

Maurice Maeterlinck

" 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. "

" My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it's like you're on Mars. "

" 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

" And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

" In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "

Benjamin Franklin

" I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. "

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

" I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. "

William Butler Yeats

" A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. "

" To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death. "

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