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" Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. "
David Hume
Influence
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" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "
Oscar Wilde
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" I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength. "
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" I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. "
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" The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil. "
Jane Goodall
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" Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. "
Albert Camus
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" Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. "
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" This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. "
David Hume
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" O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. "
Anne Boleyn
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" Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. "
Hunter S. Thompson
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" When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. "
Samuel Fuller
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" 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. "
Raymond Carver
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" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "
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" Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. "
Patricia Heaton
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Love
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" The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death. "
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Woman
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" 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
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" Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. "
Steve Jobs
Pride
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" The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence. "
Gerard De Nerval
Death
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" Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short. "
Isaac Hanson
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" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "
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" We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death. "
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" Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. "
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" Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. "
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" All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. "
Leo Tolstoy
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" I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life. "
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" 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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