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" We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. "

Charles de Montesquieu

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" The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. "

" The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. "

Bertrand Russell

" Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. "

" Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. "

" Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. "

Ernest Hemingway

" You've gotta know what death is to know life! "

" 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

" I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. "

" I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. "

Mercedes McCambridge

" Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

" Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. "

" I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. "

Winston Churchill

" My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess. "

" There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. "

Jean de la Bruyere

" 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

" No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. "

" I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death. "

Guillermo del Toro

" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Christopher Hitchens

" Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

" The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. "

" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "

" What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. "

" 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. "

" We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. "

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

" When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit. "

" There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake. "

Daniel Berrigan

" The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children. "