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" He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. "

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" I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. "

" The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me. "

" I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. "

" People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' "

" People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism. "

Bernard Williams

" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "

" 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. "

" The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions. "

Anthony McCarten

" Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death. "

James Forman, Jr.

" Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. "

" '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. "

" I am against the death penalty. "

" Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity. "

" Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. "

" The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life? "

Blase J. Cupich

" The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. "

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

Benjamin Franklin

" Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. "

" I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. "

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

" If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. "

" Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. "

" But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution. "

" Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. "

Friedrich Durrenmatt

" 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. "

" Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God. "

Dayananda Saraswati

" It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. "

" It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. "

" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "