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

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Cesare Beccaria

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" We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. "

" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. "

" Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. "

Pope John Paul II

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

" 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

" The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. "

" Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. "

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

" What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life. "

" Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. "

" Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. "

" Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. "

" Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. "

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" The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake. "

" I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. "

" A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. "

Stanley Hauerwas

" I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us. "

Kristin Armstrong

" This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. "

" A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. "

" For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. "

" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "

" Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. "

Miguel de Unamuno

" God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide. "