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Quote about Death and Dying To die will be an awfully big adventure. All men think all men mortal, but themselves. The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the
right or wrong end of the gun. Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you
killed. So long as governments set the example of killing their
enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. Men have died from time to time, and the worms have eaten 'em, but not for love. And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right
and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can
understand. Even very young children need to be informed about dying.
Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him
with it much more effective. Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror.
Kill everyone, and you are a god. My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just
napping. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. A suicide kills two people . . . thats what its
for. Funerals are pretty compared with death. The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule beings. If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world
without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not:
The expert is the one who is still alive Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be
killed once, but in politics many times. Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without
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