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" I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. "

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" My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it's like you're on Mars. "

" 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. "

" The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence. "

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" They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. "

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" There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. "

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" It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. "

" Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. "

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" Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. "

" We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God. "

" A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. "

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

" Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not. "

" 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. "

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" As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. "

" And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. "

" Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. "

" We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it. "

" The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace. "

" My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess. "

" Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive. "

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