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" Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

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" The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert. "

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" If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination. "

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" Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. "

" But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. "

" It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers. "

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" I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. "

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

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" Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. "

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" Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. "

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" The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death. "

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

" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "

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