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" I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. "

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

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" Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "

" What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. "

" Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. "

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" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "

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" Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. "

" The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt. "

" If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. "

" When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. "

" The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection. "

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" For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. "

" There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself. "

" There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. "

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" Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. "

Pope John Paul II

" I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. "

" Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity. "

" Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! "

Luigi Pirandello

" Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart. "

" My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. "

" Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. "

" Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. "

" Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. "

" 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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" Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything. "

" I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger. "

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" Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' "

" I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death. "

" Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. "

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