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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
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I’ve been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I’ve seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of ’til death do we part.
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There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.