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" My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. "

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" Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. "

" If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. "

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" 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. "

" The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. "

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" 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! "

" The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. "

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" If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. "

" Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. "

" When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. "

John Greenleaf Whittier

" Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. "

Ezekiel Emanuel

" I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! "

" The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. "

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

" Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old. "

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" Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive. "

" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "

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" There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. "

Solomon Northup

" 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.

" Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. "

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" When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation. "

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" The idea is to die young as late as possible. "

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" L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death. "