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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. "

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" What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. "

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" Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. "

" The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. "

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" I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love. "

" Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics. "

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" An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. "

" People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. "

" Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have. "

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" We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. "

" I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. "

" I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life. "

" Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes. "

" The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. "

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" 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. "

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" Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. "

" 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. "

" I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. "

" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "

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" Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. "