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" The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us. "

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" The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. "

" It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. "

" Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. "

" I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. "

" Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march. "

" You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes. "

" The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. "

" Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. "

Miyamoto Musashi

" But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. "

" My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth. "

" The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems. "

" One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death. "

" Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. "

" 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

" The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? "

Richard LaGravenese

" People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism. "

Bernard Williams

" It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death. "

Alexander De Croo

" If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. "

" I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. "

Christopher Hitchens

" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "

" One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. "

" As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. "

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" The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. "

William Shakespeare

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

" Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. "

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

" 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. "