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" Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount. "

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

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" The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace. "

" Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. "

" Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. "

Arthur Koestler

" Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death. "

" Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. "

" As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be. "

" Nothing in life is promised except death. "

" Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. "

" 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. "

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" For me, habit is just a synonym for death. "

Juliette Binoche

" The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" To have died once is enough. "

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

Gordon B. Hinckley

" I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. "

Muqtada al Sadr

" I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. "

" I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything. "

" There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. "

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

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

" I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with. "

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" Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. "

" Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. "

Ramana Maharshi

" Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. "

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

" Death is the cure for all diseases. "

" I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. "

" Give the peasants neither life nor death. "

Ieyasu Tokugawa

" It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers. "