"The Beatles are dying in the wrong order."
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"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."
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"Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it."
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"I will be conquered; I will not capitulate."
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"Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc."
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"Rest is for the dead."
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"What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this."
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"It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day."
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"I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living."
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"If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living."
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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"
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"Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time."
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"In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying."
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"Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war - this is pest control! Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you? Dalek Sec: Four. Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks? Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You superior in only one respect. Cyber Leader: What is that? Dalek Sec: You are better at dying."
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"I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that."
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"I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license."
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"Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him."
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"I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got."
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"You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work."
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"What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearance… in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, ‘to cease to be among men’) just as action in the sense of ‘to make a beginning’ is a repetition of birth."
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