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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

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

“The dead governs the living”. –Auguste Comte

“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing”. –Redd Foxx

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”. –John Arbuthnot

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

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it”. –Oscar Wilde