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- Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.
- General John Stark, (State motto of New Hampshire)
- Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
- If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), on Iraqi Resistance Fighters
- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. - John Donne (1572 - 1631), Death Be Not Proud
- I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), Diary, 17 February 1922
- I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
- Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974), Interview shortly before his death, 1974
- I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997
- You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
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