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" I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. "

Benjamin Franklin

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" I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. "

" A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. "

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" For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows. "

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" As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us. "

" The valiant never taste of death but once. "

William Shakespeare

" The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death. "

" Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. "

" Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. "

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" Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. "

" Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. "

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" Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. "

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