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Thomas Aquinas on death
Author: Thomas Aquinas“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
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Simone de Beauvoir on death
Author: Simone de Beauvoir“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
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William Hazlitt on death
Author: William Hazlitt“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
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Mason Cooley on death
Author: Mason Cooley“Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.” -Mason Cooley
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Paul Simon on death
Author: Paul Simon“As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won’t be put to death.” -Paul Simon
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H. G. Wells on death
Author: H. G. Wells“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
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Joseph Addison on death
Author: Joseph Addison“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.” -Joseph Addison
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David Herbert Lawrence on death
Author: David Herbert Lawrence“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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Jean Racine on death
Author: Jean Racine“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
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Douglas MacArthur on death
Author: Douglas MacArthur“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
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Pope Benedict XVI on death
Author: Pope Benedict XVI“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
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Isaac Bashevis Singer on death
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer“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
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Jack Nicholson on death
Author: Jack Nicholson“I’m Irish. I think about death all the time.” -Jack Nicholson
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall on death
Author: Evelyn Beatrice Hall“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” -Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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Donald Rumsfeld on death
Author: Donald Rumsfeld“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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Imran Khan on death
Author: Imran Khan“A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.” -Imran Khan
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Yitzhak Rabin on death
Author: Yitzhak Rabin“We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.” -Yitzhak Rabin
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Henry Miller on death
Author: Henry Miller“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
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George Santayana on death
Author: George Santayana“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” -George Santayana
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Julius Caesar on death
Author: Julius Caesar“Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.” -Julius Caesar
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John Donne on death
Author: John Donne“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
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Henry Van Dyke on death
Author: Henry Van Dyke“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
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W. Somerset Maugham on death
Author: W. Somerset Maugham“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
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Lena Horne on death
Author: Lena Horne“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
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Fyodor Dostoevsky on death
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky“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