"We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth."
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"Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death."
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"Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion."
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"I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"Birth was the death of him."
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"Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods."
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"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."
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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
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"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
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"Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."
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"I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol."
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"Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity."
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"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
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"Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside."
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"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
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"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
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"Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'."
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"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
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"Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die."
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