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" Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' "

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" We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. "

Robert Falcon Scott

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" Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal. "

" 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. "

" If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. "

" It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens. "

" Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. "

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" The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us. "

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" Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. "

" I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with. "

" One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. "

" At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. "

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

" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "

" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "

" Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. "

" One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. "

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" If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. "

" Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities. "

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

" Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. "

" Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. "

" Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. "

" Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. "

" I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. "

" Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. "

" When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day. "

" The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. "

" Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. "

" Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. "

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