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" I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. "
Clarence Darrow
Death
Man
Many
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" If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. "
Claude Vorilhon
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" Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. "
Leo Tolstoy
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" The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. "
Walter Cronkite
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" Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. "
Christian Lous Lange
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Future
" Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. "
Ron White
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" The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. "
Edgar Allan Poe
Beautiful
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" The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. "
Clarence Darrow
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World
Up
" It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. "
Patrick Henry
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" We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat. "
Kevin Bacon
Death
Throw
Plastic
" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
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" I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window. "
Pau Gasol
Days
Window
Way
" 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
Life
Death
Anxiety
" There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. "
Roger Ebert
Death
You
Nothing
" An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. "
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life
Existence
Than
" Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. "
Paul Ricoeur
Death
Living
Resurrection
" 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. "
Ram Dass
Help
Great
You
" When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday. "
Albert Brooks
Great
Trying
Good
" None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths. "
Joni Eareckson Tada
Die
Know
Death
" Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word. "
Joyce Meyer
Happy
Words
Victory
" Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. "
Lee Iacocca
Death
Respect
God
" When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. "
Morihei Ueshiba
Life
Struggle
Warrior
" Give the peasants neither life nor death. "
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Peasants
Life
Give
" You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit. "
Criss Angel
You
Know
Kiss
" I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. "
Clarence Darrow
Glad
Eat
Because
" In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. "
Alfred Russel Wallace
Eternity
Solitude
Space
" I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. "
Shekhar Kapur
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Life
" Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. "
David Hume
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Much
Powerful
" I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. "
Martha Beck
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Death
Always
" In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. "
Ida B. Wells
Men
Death
Women
" I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. "
Anne Frank
Foundation
Peace
Death