From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. — Harry A. Blackmun

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

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Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. ― W. C. Fields

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Death is a continuation of my life without me.

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Our life is made by the death of others. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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