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" It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. "

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" Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. "

Mary Baker Eddy

" 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! "

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

" Death is a fearful thing. "

William Shakespeare

" It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. "

" There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. "

" 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. "

" Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service. "

" Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. "

" Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. "

" The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. "

" Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. "

" Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. "

" Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. "

" You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother. "

" 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

" Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. "

" 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. "

" When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. "

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

" Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. "

" When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. "

" I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that. "

" Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

" See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. "

" The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American. "

" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "

" There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself. "

" Death is the tyrant of the imagination. "

" We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. "