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" In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "

Benjamin Franklin

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

" Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. "

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Napoleon Bonaparte

" Life without Liberty is far worse than death. "

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

" Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. "

" When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway. "

" I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. "

" When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in. "

" Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. "

" If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. "

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

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

" Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome. "

" Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. "

William Shakespeare

" Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. "

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" He that sows thorns should never go barefoot. "

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" When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it. "

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" Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. "

" Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. "

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" Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. "

" The discontented man finds no easy chair. "

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" We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone. "

" If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost. "

" 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. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. "

Mary Harris Jones

" Creditors have better memories than debtors. "

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" We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow. "

" I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. "