Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump! ― W. C. Fields

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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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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! — Patrick Henry

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc. ― Michael Bassey Johnson

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Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. ― Paulo Coelho

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All in all, death is something like marriage.

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It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.

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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. ― Mary Renault

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Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off.

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