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  • N. Rowe Death is the privilige of human nature and life without it were not worth our taking.
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  • Bell Hooks Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Hannah Arendt 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
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Adam Clarke Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Billie Whitelaw Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
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  • John Dryden Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • George Herbert Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Thomas Fuller 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.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • John L. Motley Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Richard Nixon Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • George Edward Woodberry Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Robert South Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Peter Bechmann Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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  • Aaron Allston Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • A. R. Ammons Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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