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" If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. "

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" Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities. "

" Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. "

Marcus Aurelius

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

" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "

" I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. "

" There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option. "

" It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. "

" Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too. "

" Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America. "

" Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. "

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

" Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. "

" The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil. "

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

Alfred Russel Wallace

" Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies. "

" The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert. "

Caitlin Doughty

" In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen. "

" The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. "

" Life and death have been lacking in my life. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. "

" I'm not afraid to die. "

" In the long run we are all dead. "

John Maynard Keynes

" I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. "

Clarence Darrow