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- This is no time to make new enemies.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.
- I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin
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- A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
- Eric Sevareid
- ...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
- The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options. Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal.
- Tim Mefford
- Death: To stop sinning suddenly.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- The only difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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