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  • George Bernard Shaw Death is for many of us the gate of hell;
    but we are inside on the way out,
    not outside on the way in.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein 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.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Thomas Merton Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Gary Mark Gilmore Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Lord George Byron Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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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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  • Bev Perdue Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bruce Lipton Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bob Dylan Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
    Union Sundown
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Archibald Macleish Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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