"We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected."
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"Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal."
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"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."
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"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."
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"What can they suffer that do not fear to die?"
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"The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown."
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"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"
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"A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life."
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"Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand."
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"For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay."
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"Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived."
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"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."
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"When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins."
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"O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep."
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"[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence."
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"A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men"
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"You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates."
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"Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more."
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"When good men die their goodness does not perish."
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"We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way."
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