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• Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

  Sophocles

  Men, Nobility

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

  Euripides

  Prayer, Lying, Men

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Real, Moving, Leader

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• Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Dog, Beach, Islands

  "Save the Satos" by Juliana Hatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2010.

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• I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Spiritual, Art

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• Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Creativity, Artist, Firsts

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• To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

  Euripides

  Death, Pain, Thinking

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.255, University of Chicago Press

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• I also think if you get sort of early success there's always this part of you which feels like, "I need to address the imbalance, I need to kind of earn that success after the fact". I try to find roles that are hard and also, I still find now, even after I've done loads of really random movies, directors are really surprised that I want to play the parts that I want to play. They just assume that you want to only do the honorable good guy lead who saves the day or dies at the end .

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Agony, Doe, Firsts

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• ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

  Saul Bellow

  Struggle, Sleep, Fighting

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• People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, People, Choices

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• If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die.

  Vivian Balakrishnan

  Girl, Fall, Fighting

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• Those of you who have been there [Haiti] know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground.... It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you haven't been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death "Calais" would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that "Haiti" is going to be written on my heart.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Country, Queens

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• It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

  Euripides

  Life And Death, Glory

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

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• Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

  Sophocles

  Doe, Reverence, Mortals

  "The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks". Book by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 69, December 15, 2008.

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• Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

  Horace

  Carpe Diem, Green Fields, Remember You

  Odes 11.3

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• Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
  
  And make me cower in the dark.
  
  Remind me that I'm all alone
  
  And draw upon my face your mark.
  
  How is it that you capture me,
  
  When all my thoughts deny your force?
  
  Is it the reptile in my brain
  
  That lets your terror run its course?
  
  
  
  Baseless Fear undoes us all
  
  Despite our quest for lofty goals.
  
  We would-be Galahads don't die,
  
  Fear just freezes all our souls.
  
  It keeps us mute when feeling love,
  
  Reminding us what we might lose.
  
  And if by chance we meet success,
  
  Fear tells us which safe route to choose.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Fear, Dark

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama Revealed”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.

  Robin Williams

  War, Heart, Cutting

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• Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Choices, Age

  Charles Dudley Warner (1873). “Backlog Studies”, p.28

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• Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Awareness, Born

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• Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

  Robert Breault

  Promise, Undying Love, Pledge

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• I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

  Antonio Porchia

  Believe, Soul, Suffering

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Differences, Intensity, Born

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• ...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Rain, America

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• Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Air, People, Association

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures”

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