Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.;Thomas Paine;death 13507;If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.;Angelina Jolie;death 13508;Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.;Emily Dickinson;death 13509;Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.;Henry Ward Beecher;death 13510;I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.;Harriet Tubman;death 13511;No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.;Billy Graham;death 13512;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.;P. J. O’Rourke;death 13513;Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.;Ron White;death 13514;The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.;E. M. Forster;death 13515;Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.;Epicurus;death 13516;You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.;Napoleon Bonaparte;death 13517;It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.;Napoleon Bonaparte;death 13518;I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.;Paulo Coelho;death 13519;Marriage is the death of hope.;Woody Allen;death 13520;Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.;Pope John Paul II;death 13521;Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.;Victor Hugo;death 13522;Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.;Tecumseh;death 13523;The goal of all life is death.;Sigmund Freud;death 13524;I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.;Billy Graham;death 13525;The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.;Norman Cousins;death 13526;Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?;Barry Goldwater;death 13527;Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.;Ambrose Bierce;death 13528;We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.;Deepak Chopra;death 13529;Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.;Lucius Annaeus Seneca;death 13530;Belief is the death of intelligence.;Robert Anton Wilson;death 13531;A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.;Barbara Corcoran;death 13532;Grumbling is the death of love.;Marlene Dietrich;death 13533;Our life is made by the death of others.;Leonardo da Vinci;death 13534;Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.;Leo Tolstoy;death 13535;The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.;Deepak Chopra;death 13536;It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.;Epictetus;death 13537;Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.;William Blake;death 13538;As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.;Blaise Pascal;death 13539;Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.;Walt Whitman;death 13540;The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.;Bertrand Russell;death 13541;Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.;Soren Kierkegaard;death 13542;Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.;Michelangelo;death 13543;And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.;Walt Whitman;death 13544;There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.;Soren Kierkegaard;death 13545;Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.;Lord Byron;death 13546;The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.;Joseph Stalin;death 13547;Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.;Blaise Pascal;death 13548;Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.;Carl Jung;death 13549;We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.;Robert Green Ingersoll;death 13550;Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.;Chuck Palahniuk;death 13551;Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.;Arthur Schopenhauer;death 13552;On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.;Francois de La Rochefoucauld;death 13553;If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.;Samuel Butler;death 13554;If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.;Michelangelo;death 13555;Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.;Arthur Schopenhauer;death 13556;Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.;Jackie Kennedy;death 13557;In every parting there is an image of death.;George Eliot;death 13558;It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air - there’s the rub, the task.;Virgil;death 13559;Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.;George Eliot;death 13560;When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.;George Eliot;death 13561;The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.;Blaise Pascal;death 13562;On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .;Woody Allen;death 13563;It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.;Woody Allen;death 13564;When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.;Morihei Ueshiba;death 13565;Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.;Elisabeth Kubler-Ross;death 13566;To some extent I liken slavery to death.;Marcus Tullius Cicero;death 13567;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;death 13568;It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.;John Steinbeck;death 13569;Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.;Francois de La Rochefoucauld;death 13570;Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.;Francois de La Rochefoucauld;death 13571;I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.;John Keats;death 13572;Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.;Thomas Merton;death 13573;Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.;John Keats;death 13574;For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.;George Santayana;death 13575;A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.;Fidel Castro;death 13576;Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings!;Dwight L. Moody;death 13577;Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.;Guru Nanak;death 13578;I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.;Hedy Lamarr;death 13579;When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.;George Eliot;death 13580;But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I’ve failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don’t get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.;Emma Thompson;death 13581;Life is but a moment, death also is but another.;Robert H. Schuller;death 13582;Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.;Honore de Balzac;death 13583;Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.;Hannah Arendt;death 13584;A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.;Ovid;death 13585;All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.;Leo Tolstoy;death 13586;I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.;William Butler Yeats;death 13587;Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.;Gilbert Parker;death 13588;It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.;Elisabeth Kubler-Ross;death 13589;Death is just life’s next big adventure.;J. K. Rowling;death 13590;I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.;Corazon Aquino;death 13591;In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.;Robert Green Ingersoll;death 13592;Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.;Miyamoto Musashi;death 13593;I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I’m consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.;Courtney Love;death 13594;Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.;Fulton J. Sheen;death 13595;Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.;Rosalind Russell;death 13596;If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.;Joseph Stalin;death 13597;My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.;Johnny Cash;death 13598;I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.;Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;death 13599;One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.;Jean-Paul Sartre;death 13600;If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.;Samuel Butler;death 13601;Whether for life or death, do your own work well.;John Ruskin;death 13602;My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.;Huey Newton;death 13603;Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.;James Anthony Froude;death 13604;The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where’s the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there’s nothing wrong with them?;Rush Limbaugh;death 13605;True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.;Stendhal;death 13606;There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.;Samuel Butler;death 13607;A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.;Jesse Jackson;death 13608;I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.;Francis Bacon;death 13609;Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.;Saul Alinsky;death 13610;It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.;Michel de Montaigne;death 13611;Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.;Samuel Butler;death 13612;Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.;Samuel Butler;death 13613;The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.;Samuel Butler;death 13614;Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.;Samuel Butler;death 13615;I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.;Pope John XXIII;death 13616;If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.;Morgan Freeman;death 13617;Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.;Horace;death 13618;If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.;Indira Gandhi;death 13619;Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.;Samuel Johnson;death 13620;Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.;Samuel Johnson;death 13621;If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.;Martin Heidegger;death 13622;I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.;Robert Green Ingersoll;death 13623;I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.;Anthony Hopkins;death 13624;Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.;William Cowper;death 13625;Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.;David Herbert Lawrence;death 13626;Love has no age, no limit and no death.;John Galsworthy;death 13627;Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.;Horace;death 13628;He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.;Horace;death 13629;Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.;Omar N. Bradley;death 13630;For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.;Elisabeth Kubler-Ross;death 13631;Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don’t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.;Stevie Ray Vaughan;death 13632;What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.;Dave Barry;death 13633;Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.;Michel de Montaigne;death 13634;The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.;Michel de Montaigne;death 13635;That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.;Amelia Barr;death 13636;Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.;Tennessee Williams;death 13637;We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.;Nathaniel Hawthorne;death 13638;Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.;Rollo May;death 13639;If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.;Eric Cantona;death 13640;When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.;Robert Green Ingersoll;death 13641;Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.;Bill Shankly;death 13642;In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.;Henry Miller;death 13643;Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.;James Russell Lowell;death 13644;I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.;Angus Young;death 13645;Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.;William Wycherley;death 13646;People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.;E. M. Forster;death 13647;Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.;E. M. Forster;death 13648;Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.;Fyodor Dostoevsky;death 13649;Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.;Lena Horne;death 13650;In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.;Hannah Arendt;death 13651;We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.;Yitzhak Rabin;death 13652;A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.;Imran Khan;death 13653;Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.;John Donne;death 13654;Kurt and I weren’t the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.;Layne Staley;death 13655;The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.;Henry Miller;death 13656;Divorce is probably as painful as death.;William Shatner;death 13657;Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.;Donald Rumsfeld;death 13658;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.;Evelyn Beatrice Hall;death 13659;I’m Irish. I think about death all the time.;Jack Nicholson;death 13660;What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.;Henry Van Dyke;death 13661;The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.;Isaac Bashevis Singer;death 13662;Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.;Julius Caesar;death 13663;I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.;Jerry Garcia;death 13664;Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.;Pope Benedict XVI;death 13665;The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.;Jean Paul;death 13666;I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.;Douglas MacArthur;death 13667;Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.;David Herbert Lawrence;death 13668;Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.;W. Somerset Maugham;death 13669;A tragedy need not have blood and death it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.;Jean Racine;death 13670;There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.;George Santayana;death 13671;The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.;Joseph Addison;death 13672;There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.;H. G. Wells;death 13673;As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won’t be put to death.;Paul Simon;death 13674;In every death, a busy world comes to an end.;Mason Cooley;death 13675;Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.;William Hazlitt;death 13676;It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.;Simone de Beauvoir;death 13677;Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.;Jean Cocteau;death 13678;For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.;Sophocles;death 13679;If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.;Thomas Aquinas;death 13680;If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that’s the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn’t live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.;Marilyn Manson;death 13681;And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.;Bodhidharma;death 13682;Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.;Keith Richards;death 13683;A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.;Robert Benchley;death 13684;The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.;David Herbert Lawrence;death 13685;Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.;Jean de La Fontaine;death 13686;As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.;Leonardo DaVinci;death 13687;Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.;Mason Cooley;death 13688;To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.;Peter Tosh;death 13689;Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.;Adlai E. Stevenson;death 13690;For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.;Sophocles;death 13691;Not even old age knows how to love death.;Sophocles;death 13692;I look at ‘Death Proof’ and realize I had too much time.;Quentin Tarantino;death 13693;Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.;Jerry Garcia;death 13694;A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.;Jesse Jackson;death 13695;The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.;Vladimir Lenin;death 13696;I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.;Brendan Behan;death 13697;The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.;Dave Barry;death 13698;The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.;David Byrne;death 13699;My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.;Brooke Shields;death 13700;Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.;Alfred Adler;death 13701;To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.;J. K. Rowling;death 13702;Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.;Heinrich Heine;death 13703;All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.;Isabel Allende;death 13704;Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.

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Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.;Thomas Paine;death 13507;If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.;Angelina Jolie;death 13508;Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.;Emily Dickinson;death 13509;Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.;Henry Ward Beecher;death 13510;I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.;Harriet Tubman;death 13511;No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.;Billy Graham;death 13512;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.;P. J. O’Rourke;death 13513;Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.;Ron White;death 13514;The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.;E. M. Forster;death 13515;Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.;Epicurus;death 13516;You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.;Napoleon Bonaparte;death 13517;It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.;Napoleon Bonaparte;death 13518;I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.;Paulo Coelho;death 13519;Marriage is the death of hope.;Woody Allen;death 13520;Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.;Pope John Paul II;death 13521;Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.;Victor Hugo;death 13522;Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.;Tecumseh;death 13523;The goal of all life is death.;Sigmund Freud;death 13524;I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.;Billy Graham;death 13525;The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.;Norman Cousins;death 13526;Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?;Barry Goldwater;death 13527;Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.;Ambrose Bierce;death 13528;We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.;Deepak Chopra;death 13529;Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.;Lucius Annaeus Seneca;death 13530;Belief is the death of intelligence.;Robert Anton Wilson;death 13531;A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.;Barbara Corcoran;death 13532;Grumbling is the death of love.;Marlene Dietrich;death 13533;Our life is made by the death of others.;Leonardo da Vinci;death 13534;Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.;Leo Tolstoy;death 13535;The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.;Deepak Chopra;death 13536;It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.;Epictetus;death 13537;Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.;William Blake;death 13538;As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.;Blaise Pascal;death 13539;Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.;Walt Whitman;death 13540;The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.;Bertrand Russell;death 13541;Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.;Soren Kierkegaard;death 13542;Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.;Michelangelo;death 13543;And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.;Walt Whitman;death 13544;There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.;Soren Kierkegaard;death 13545;Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.;Lord Byron;death 13546;The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.;Joseph Stalin;death 13547;Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.;Blaise Pascal;death 13548;Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.;Carl Jung;death 13549;We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.;Robert Green Ingersoll;death 13550;Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.;Chuck Palahniuk;death 13551;Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.;Arthur Schopenhauer;death 13552;On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.;Francois de La Rochefoucauld;death 13553;If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.;Samuel Butler;death 13554;If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.;Michelangelo;death 13555;Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.;Arthur Schopenhauer;death 13556;Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.;Jackie Kennedy;death 13557;In every parting there is an image of death.;George Eliot;death 13558;It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air - there’s the rub, the task.;Virgil;death 13559;Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.;George Eliot;death 13560;When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.;George Eliot;death 13561;The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.;Blaise Pascal;death 13562;On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .;Woody Allen;death 13563;It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.;Woody Allen;death 13564;When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.;Morihei Ueshiba;death 13565;Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.;Elisabeth Kubler-Ross;death 13566;To some extent I liken slavery to death.;Marcus Tullius Cicero;death 13567;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;death 13568;It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.;John Steinbeck;death 13569;Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.;Francois de La Rochefoucauld;death 13570;Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.;Francois de La Rochefoucauld;death 13571;I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.;John Keats;death 13572;Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.;Thomas Merton;death 13573;Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.;John Keats;death 13574;For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.;George Santayana;death 13575;A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.;Fidel Castro;death 13576;Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings!;Dwight L. Moody;death 13577;Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.;Guru Nanak;death 13578;I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.;Hedy Lamarr;death 13579;When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.;George Eliot;death 13580;But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I’ve failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don’t get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.;Emma Thompson;death 13581;Life is but a moment, death also is but another.;Robert H. Schuller;death 13582;Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.;Honore de Balzac;death 13583;Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.;Hannah Arendt;death 13584;A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.;Ovid;death 13585;All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.;Leo Tolstoy;death 13586;I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.;William Butler Yeats;death 13587;Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.;Gilbert Parker;death 13588;It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.;Elisabeth Kubler-Ross;death 13589;Death is just life’s next big adventure.;J. K. Rowling;death 13590;I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.;Corazon Aquino;death 13591;In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.;Robert Green Ingersoll;death 13592;Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.;Miyamoto Musashi;death 13593;I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I’m consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.;Courtney Love;death 13594;Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.;Fulton J. Sheen;death 13595;Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.;Rosalind Russell;death 13596;If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.;Joseph Stalin;death 13597;My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.;Johnny Cash;death 13598;I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.;Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;death 13599;One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.;Jean-Paul Sartre;death 13600;If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.;Samuel Butler;death 13601;Whether for life or death, do your own work well.;John Ruskin;death 13602;My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.;Huey Newton;death 13603;Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.;James Anthony Froude;death 13604;The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where’s the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there’s nothing wrong with them?;Rush Limbaugh;death 13605;True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.;Stendhal;death 13606;There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.;Samuel Butler;death 13607;A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.;Jesse Jackson;death 13608;I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.;Francis Bacon;death 13609;Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.;Saul Alinsky;death 13610;It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.;Michel de Montaigne;death 13611;Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.;Samuel Butler;death 13612;Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.;Samuel Butler;death 13613;The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.;Samuel Butler;death 13614;Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.;Samuel Butler;death 13615;I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.;Pope John XXIII;death 13616;If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.;Morgan Freeman;death 13617;Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.;Horace;death 13618;If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.;Indira Gandhi;death 13619;Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.;Samuel Johnson;death 13620;Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.;Samuel Johnson;death 13621;If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.;Martin Heidegger;death 13622;I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.;Robert Green Ingersoll;death 13623;I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.;Anthony Hopkins;death 13624;Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.;William Cowper;death 13625;Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.;David Herbert Lawrence;death 13626;Love has no age, no limit and no death.;John Galsworthy;death 13627;Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.;Horace;death 13628;He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.;Horace;death 13629;Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.;Omar N. Bradley;death 13630;For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.;Elisabeth Kubler-Ross;death 13631;Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don’t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.;Stevie Ray Vaughan;death 13632;What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.;Dave Barry;death 13633;Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.;Michel de Montaigne;death 13634;The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.;Michel de Montaigne;death 13635;That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.;Amelia Barr;death 13636;Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.;Tennessee Williams;death 13637;We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.;Nathaniel Hawthorne;death 13638;Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.;Rollo May;death 13639;If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.;Eric Cantona;death 13640;When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.;Robert Green Ingersoll;death 13641;Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.;Bill Shankly;death 13642;In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.;Henry Miller;death 13643;Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.;James Russell Lowell;death 13644;I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.;Angus Young;death 13645;Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.;William Wycherley;death 13646;People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.;E. M. Forster;death 13647;Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.;E. M. Forster;death 13648;Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.;Fyodor Dostoevsky;death 13649;Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.;Lena Horne;death 13650;In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.;Hannah Arendt;death 13651;We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.;Yitzhak Rabin;death 13652;A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.;Imran Khan;death 13653;Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.;John Donne;death 13654;Kurt and I weren’t the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.;Layne Staley;death 13655;The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.;Henry Miller;death 13656;Divorce is probably as painful as death.;William Shatner;death 13657;Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.;Donald Rumsfeld;death 13658;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.;Evelyn Beatrice Hall;death 13659;I’m Irish. I think about death all the time.;Jack Nicholson;death 13660;What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.;Henry Van Dyke;death 13661;The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.;Isaac Bashevis Singer;death 13662;Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.;Julius Caesar;death 13663;I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.;Jerry Garcia;death 13664;Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.;Pope Benedict XVI;death 13665;The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.;Jean Paul;death 13666;I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.;Douglas MacArthur;death 13667;Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.;David Herbert Lawrence;death 13668;Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.;W. Somerset Maugham;death 13669;A tragedy need not have blood and death it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.;Jean Racine;death 13670;There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.;George Santayana;death 13671;The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.;Joseph Addison;death 13672;There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.;H. G. Wells;death 13673;As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won’t be put to death.;Paul Simon;death 13674;In every death, a busy world comes to an end.;Mason Cooley;death 13675;Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.;William Hazlitt;death 13676;It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.;Simone de Beauvoir;death 13677;Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.;Jean Cocteau;death 13678;For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.;Sophocles;death 13679;If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.;Thomas Aquinas;death 13680;If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that’s the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn’t live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.;Marilyn Manson;death 13681;And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.;Bodhidharma;death 13682;Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.;Keith Richards;death 13683;A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.;Robert Benchley;death 13684;The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.;David Herbert Lawrence;death 13685;Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.;Jean de La Fontaine;death 13686;As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.;Leonardo DaVinci;death 13687;Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.;Mason Cooley;death 13688;To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.;Peter Tosh;death 13689;Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.;Adlai E. Stevenson;death 13690;For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.;Sophocles;death 13691;Not even old age knows how to love death.;Sophocles;death 13692;I look at ‘Death Proof’ and realize I had too much time.;Quentin Tarantino;death 13693;Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.;Jerry Garcia;death 13694;A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.;Jesse Jackson;death 13695;The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.;Vladimir Lenin;death 13696;I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.;Brendan Behan;death 13697;The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.;Dave Barry;death 13698;The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.;David Byrne;death 13699;My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.;Brooke Shields;death 13700;Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.;Alfred Adler;death 13701;To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.;J. K. Rowling;death 13702;Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.;Heinrich Heine;death 13703;All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.;Isabel Allende;death 13704;Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.

- Christopher Hitchens

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