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" Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. "

Miyamoto Musashi

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" The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world. "

" Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word. "

" It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. "

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" Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. "

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" It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. "

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" A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. "

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" In every parting there is an image of death. "

" Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. "

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" My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house. "

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" I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. "

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" The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death. "

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

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" Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. "

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" Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. "

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" The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? "

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" Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. "

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