"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."
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"Cowards die many times before their actual deaths."
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"If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?"
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."
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"I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead."
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"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
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"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
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"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"
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"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
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"A civilization that denies death ends by denying life."
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"I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another"
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"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
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"The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep."
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"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
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"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
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"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
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"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
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