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

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" Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. "

" 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. "

" Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. "

Solomon Northup

" We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow. "

" On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. "

George MacDonald

" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel. "

" Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. "

" Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. "

" Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. "

Fulton J. Sheen

" Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "

" If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. "

" 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

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

Christopher Hitchens

" Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. "

" My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death. "

" If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. "

Claude Vorilhon

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

" Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. "

Jean de La Fontaine

" He who doesn't fear death dies only once. "

Giovanni Falcone

" I'm gonna live till I die. "

" The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace. "

" Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously. "

" Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. "

" In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies. "

" In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. "

" I always say, complacency is the kiss of death. "