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" Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. "

Liu Xiaobo

Death

Life

Freedom

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" Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. "

" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. "

" We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments such as these occur - in fact, Charlottesville confirms the violence that black people endure every day. "

" In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces. "

" 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. "

" In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. "

" Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

Walt Whitman

Death

Nothing

" When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. "

" A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. "

" My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax. "

" We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. "

" 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. "

" Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Silence

Strength

Moment

" Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China's own development but also limiting the progress of all of human civilization. "

" A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Character

Jury

Judges

" In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen. "

" As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do? "

" The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Living

Memory

Life

" The valiant never taste of death but once. "

" Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. "

" Inactivity is death. "

Benito Mussolini

Death

Inactivity

" The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. "

" There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. "

" 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. "

" If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. "

" There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? "

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

" Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. "

" It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. "