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" Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it! "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Now

Welcome

Death

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" I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense. "

" There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. "

" An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. "

" For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me. "

" Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. "

" If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost. "

" I eat death threats for breakfast! "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Threats

Breakfast

Death

" Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged. "

" Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake. "

" Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. "

" The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' "

" Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "

John Donne

Know

I Am

" I am a bankable candidate. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Candidate

I Am

" Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. "

" We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God. "

" I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970. "

" Death's in the good-bye. "

Anne Sexton

Death

Good-Bye

" Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. "

" And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

Walt Whitman

Beautiful

Death

" Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. "

" Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. "

Robert Bolt

Death

Day

" I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life. "

" I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Law

Opinions

Think

" Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. "

Dean Inge

Love

World

" I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Believe

People

" In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. "

" I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death. "

" I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. "

Mattie Stepanek

Place

Sad