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" When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken. "

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" Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' "

" We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments such as these occur - in fact, Charlottesville confirms the violence that black people endure every day. "

" Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

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" It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. "

" On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . "

" Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't. "

" If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death. "

" For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. "

" I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. "

" Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. "

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

" I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. "

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" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. "

" Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. "

" Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act. "

" Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. "

" Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. "

" Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. "

" When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. "

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

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" I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. "

" I think that the Pope has trust in every bishop that is appointed. "

" We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. "

" The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence. "

" Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. "

" Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. "