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" If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. "

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" Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. "

" As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. "

" The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. "

William Shakespeare

" I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. "

" Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel. "

" 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. "

" All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. "

Maurice Maeterlinck

" In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. "

Alfred Russel Wallace

" And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! "

William Shakespeare

" The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death! "

Edward Everett Hale

" If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. "

" I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. "

" We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. "

" Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death. "

" The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. "

" You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. "

" Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. "

" Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. "

Tennessee Williams

" Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. "

Bryant H. McGill

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

" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "

" An unused life is an early death. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed. "

" Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! "

" Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. "

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