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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. "

Guillermo del Toro

Life

You

Walk

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" I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. "

" Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. "

Tryon Edwards

Death

End

" Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon. "

" Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. "

" Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. "

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

" The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. "

" It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. "

" 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

God

Influence

Evil

" We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. "

" Hell, madam, is to love no longer. "

" You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. "

" I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. "

" Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. "

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

" 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. "

" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "

" Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. "

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge

Death

Ignorance

" You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit. "

" There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady. "

Tom Landry

Winning

Lose

" I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. "

" Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. "

" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "

" What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. "

" Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. "

" Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. "

" Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. "

" Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. "

" No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "