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" 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. "

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" I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone. "

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" Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock. "

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

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" The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' "

" Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? "

" I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year. "

" Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. "

" 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. "

" Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed. "

" There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. "

" An unused life is an early death. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Death

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Life

" I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful. "

" The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children. "

" Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. "

" I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. "

" No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear. "

" The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. "

" The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death. "

" Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. "

" The longer your life goes on, the more death you face. "

Patrick Swayze

Life

You

" Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. "

" Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. "

" We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment. "

" Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. "

" There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents. "

" 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. "

Thomas Paine

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" In the long run we are all dead. "

" I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. "

" 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. "

" My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar. "