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" If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. "

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" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "

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" As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. "

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" A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. "

" Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. "

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