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- Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), as he sipped champagne on his deathbed
- In accordance with our principles of free enterprise and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to fight to the death for it.
- Monty Python
- When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
- J.P. Donleavy
- I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
- Nancy Reagan (1921 - )
- All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
- Last words of Spanish playwright Lope de Vega on being assured on his deathbed that the end was very near
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
- Beilby Porteus, Death, A Poem
- Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
- Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
- Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
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