Death Quotes
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My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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I feel I need to really think about whether there's a way to use what skill I have to address things that outrage me, like the 13 year old girl getting stoned to death. Because I don't think making a movie is going to help that, or change that.
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Satisfaction is the death of ambition.
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People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
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Death is nature’s way of saying, Your table is ready.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.
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“The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they act like people.”
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Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.
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The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.
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In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
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My work includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.
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I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
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We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.
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When you pass from death into the life, you become a new person, and so everything you do flows from that.
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.
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Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.
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I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.
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Death is so unpredictable, it just happens - so suddenly. Death doesn't differentiate between young or old. Be prepared.
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Death is a door life opens.
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
