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" Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death. "

James Forman, Jr.

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" On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . "

" Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. "

" Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. "

" Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. "

" I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree. "

James Forman, Jr.

" Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch's 'New York Post.' Trump's oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table. "

" I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. "

" Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. "

" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "

" The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death. "

" In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. "

" Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. "

" Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. "

Dag Hammarskjold

" Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. "

" Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. "

" Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. "

" With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay? "

" Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards. "

" You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them. "

James Forman, Jr.

" When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls. "

Michael Huffington

" Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. "

" Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. "

" Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. "

" No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. "

" The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection. "

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" If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. "

" None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths. "

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