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" Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. "

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" If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. "

" I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "

Terry Pratchett

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

Russell M. Nelson

" Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. "

" In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. "

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" The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. "

" Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. "

William Shakespeare

" 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. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

" I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. "

Winston Churchill

" 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. "

" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "

" People living deeply have no fear of death. "

" I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. "

" It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death. "

" Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. "

" Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. "

" It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. "

" There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. "

Thomas A. Edison

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

Ernest Hemingway

" I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. "

" You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. "

" Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. "

" Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. "