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" The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. "

Chiang Kai-shek

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" The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. "

" I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life. "

" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

" From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. "

" The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. "

" The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. "

" Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. "

" No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. "

" Biography lends to death a new terror. "

" Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' "

Christopher Hitchens

" There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. "

" Death is just life's next big adventure. "

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

William Shakespeare

" Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. "

George Whitefield

" We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. "

" We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. "

Robert Benchley

" It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need. "

" Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body. "

" To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. "

" We die only once, and for such a long time. "

" The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. "

" Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. "

" The idea is to die young as late as possible. "

" There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. "

" I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go. "

Viggo Mortensen

" Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial. "

Howard Jacobson

" Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross