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- Repetition is the death of art.
- Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
- Dateline: Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.
- Jeffrey Vlaming, Northern Exposure, Heroes, 1992
- In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
- Book of Common Prayer, Burial Service
- To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
- If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
- Angelina Jolie (1975 - )
- It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- The goal of all life is death.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act II Scene 2
- All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
- Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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