Quotes with death--or

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  • Benjamin Bratt I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Samuel Butler If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Pythagoras If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Alphonse Karr If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Caitlin Doughty If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Dean Smith If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
    Dean Smith
    American basketball coach (1931 - 2015)
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  • George Borrow If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Antonin Scalia If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Dean Smith If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
    Dean Smith
    American basketball coach (1931 - 2015)
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  • Alexander Smith If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Aldous Huxley Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Heraclitus Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Bunker Roy In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • George Eliot In every parting there is an image of death.
    Scenes of Clerical Life, Amos Barton
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carol P. Christ In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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