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" Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. "
Pearl S. Buck
Life
Death
Just
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" The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. "
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" There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. "
Albert Camus
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" Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' "
Robert H. Schuller
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" Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. "
Mary Shelley
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" 'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders. "
Jeff Buckley
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" The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). "
Dawn Powell
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" The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "
Terry Pratchett
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" You've gotta know what death is to know life! "
Jack Kevorkian
You
Death
Know
" On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . "
Woody Allen
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" I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. "
Stephen Hawking
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" Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters. "
Kurt Eichenwald
Bell
People
World
" The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer. "
Louis XIV
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King
Follow
" Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. "
Bodhidharma
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Death
Important
" Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. "
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Union
Passage
Death
" Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. "
Bill Shankly
Important
Death
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" I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee. "
Edmund White
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" Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. "
Rick Perry
Marriage
Vote
Support
" You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. "
N. T. Wright
Abortion
Death
Death Penalty
" Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. "
George Bernard Shaw
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" If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. "
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" Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Silence
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" Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them. "
Matt Haig
Fear
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" I intend to live forever, or die trying. "
Groucho Marx
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Trying
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" I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. "
Bob Marley
Flesh
Nor
Spirit
" There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady. "
Tom Landry
Winning
Me
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" Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. "
Bertolt Brecht
Fear
Much
Death
" Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. "
Katherine Dunn
Research
Death
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" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "
D. H. Lawrence
Forgetting
Consciousness
Death
" If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. "
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Us
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" Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. "
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