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

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If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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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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It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

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The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

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All in all, death is something like marriage.

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The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. ― John F. Kennedy

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I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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