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" I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides. "

Patti Smith

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" Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. "

" Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

" Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky. "

" I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death. "

" But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution. "

" A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. "

" For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. "

" Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. "

" For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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" True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. "

" I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. "

" No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear. "

" Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. "

" 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. "

" My sunglasses are like my guitar. "

Patti Smith

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

" Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial. "

" Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. "

" 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. "

" The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. "

" You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in. "

" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. "

" I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. "

George Carlin

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" My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death. "

" In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. "

" Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. "

" For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me. "

" You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try. "

" The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. "

Mary Catherine Bateson

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