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" Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. "
Arthur Koestler
Death
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" Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character. "
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" You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe - and you suddenly start talking about them in a more technical perspective as something that can be achieved, not after you die with the help of supernatural beings, but in this very life with the help of technology. "
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" My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death. "
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" I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway. "
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" If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination. "
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" You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done. "
Louis XIV
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" When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn. "
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" Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. "
Myles Munroe
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" The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. "
Martin O'Malley
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" 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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" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. "
William Shakespeare
Death
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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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" Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. "
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