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" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. "

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

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" I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. "

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" I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable. "

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" Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. "

" 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. "

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