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" Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon. "

Bruce Dickinson

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" As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need. "

Russell M. Nelson

" We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. "

" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "

" Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker. "

" I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. "

" As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. "

Coretta Scott King

" Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. "

" No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. "

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

" Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. "

" If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. "

" Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. "

Daniel Barenboim

" If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. "

" Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism. "

Sherrilyn Kenyon

" Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful. "

" Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. "

" The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success. "

" Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. "

George Whitefield

" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "

" In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom. "

Lloyd Alexander

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. "

" I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. "

Douglas MacArthur

" The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death. "

" Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. "

Katharine Hepburn

" Death is softer by far than tyranny. "

" Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. "

Ezekiel Emanuel

" One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. "

" Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. "