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" Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. "

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" The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. "

" I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. "

" Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. "

William Shakespeare

" My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. "

" Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. "

" The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. "

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

" Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! "

" Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch's 'New York Post.' Trump's oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table. "

" I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. "

" 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.' "

" The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. "

" Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. "

" I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death. "

" I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. "

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

" People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" 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. "

" I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

" Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. "

Benjamin Franklin

" The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake. "

" Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. "

Mary Harris Jones

" I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. "

Mercedes McCambridge

" In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky. "

" My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death. "

" I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. "

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

" I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. "

" The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. "