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“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man… Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up, and their graves turned into plowed fields?” –Tecumseh

“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our poisonous gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them”. –Otto Hahn

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”. –Federico García Lorca

“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge”. –F.H. Bradley

“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is”. –Louis Armstrong

“The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence”. –Ingmar Bergman

“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me”. –Edith Cavell

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

“God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt for death”. –Hannibal

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously”. –Jerry Garcia

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment”. –Dag Hammarskjöld

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today”. –James Dean

“The dead governs the living”. –Auguste Comte

“Napoleon is dead — but Beethoven lives”. –Bruno Walter

“To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die”. –Luc de Clapiers

“So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal”. –Giuseppe Mazzini

“Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead”. –John Maynard Keynes

“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world”. –Edgar Allan Poe