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" Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things. "

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

" The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. "

" It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' "

Robert H. Schuller

" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had. "

Jennifer Armintrout

" 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. "

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

" Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. "

" We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley. "

" An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. "

" Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. "

Marcus Aurelius

" O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. "

" Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure. "

" We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. "

" Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. "

" In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. "

Jonathan Larson

" It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need. "

" What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. "

" 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. "

" The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. "

Ramana Maharshi

" With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay? "

" Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord. "

" If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant. "

Cesare Beccaria

" Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over. "

" If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. "

" Death is very often referred to as a good career move. "