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" I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year. "

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" I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. "

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" The longer your life goes on, the more death you face. "

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" Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. "

" 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. "

" Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. "

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

" There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. "

" Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. "

" Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. "

" It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. "

" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "

" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "

" I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. "

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" Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. "

" Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. "

" It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible. "

" I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me. "

" I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. "

" We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. "

" Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march. "

" I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. "

" I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. "

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" I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job. "

" Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. "

" I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. "

" We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. "

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" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "

" If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. "

" To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. "

" I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same. "