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• The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Littles, Heard

  "Redhead Redemption: Ed Sheeran". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

  John Facenda

  Summer, Football, War

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• I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is danger, and I've got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I'm looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That's all I'm gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it's life or death, he's going first.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Eye, Guy, Enemy

  "The Radio Factor", January 18, 2005.

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• I moved up beside Jamie."I have to go." She frowned at me. "Where?" I pressed a hand to the bottom of my belly. "My bladder.It-" Ah." She gave a small laugh. "We interrupt this life-or-death situation for a pregnancy pee break. Don't see that in the movies, do you?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Pregnancy, Hands, Laughing

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• If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fellowship, Lord Of The Ring, Gimli

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• I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Believe, Humble, Positive Thinking

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• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

  John Green

  Alaska, Suffering, Labyrinth

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Penguin

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• You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

  Stephen Levine

  Joy, Mindfulness, Ongoing

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• Do you see, Solange, that you are the only woman in my world? The one woman who can choose life or death for me. You are the center of my world and you always will be. When I tell you that your pleasure is mine, I mean that literally

  Christine Feehan

  Mean, World, Pleasure

  Christine Feehan (2011). “Christine Feehan 3 Carpathian novels”, p.961, Penguin

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• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

  John Green

  Pain, Talking, Alaska

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• Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Choices, Focus

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.193, Penguin

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• That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hero, People, Fascination

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• She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."

  John Green

  Christian, Buddhist, Pain

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Real, Failing

  Ally Carter (2008). “Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)”, Hyperion

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• When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.

  Denis Leary

  Jobs, New York, Fire

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• It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Life, Women

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• It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.

  Paula Abdul

  Jobs, Kids, Chance

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• Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

  Jean Cocteau

  Love, Moving, Drug

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reality, Crave

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Real, Son, Strider

  "The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings".

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• Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Peace, War, Adventure

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• The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

  Franz Liszt

  Dwelling, Peaceful, Fever

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• To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

  John Ruskin

  Death, Quality, Literature

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

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