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" I always say, complacency is the kiss of death. "

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Theodore Roosevelt

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" Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. "

" If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination. "

Devdutt Pattanaik

" Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock. "

" Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?' "

" Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. "

" A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. "

" The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. "

" And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. "

" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. "

William Shakespeare

" 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

" Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath. "

" Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. "

" There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. "

" If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. "

Martin Heidegger

" Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. "

" Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. "

" Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. "

" You'll have time to rest when you're dead. "

" As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. "

" If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. "

" Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. "

" I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. "

" I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. "

" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "

" Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. "