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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
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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.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
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Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.
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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
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Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
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