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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans cant afford, they are condemning good people to death. – Tammy Bruce

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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. – Edward Young

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasnt a Christian, she would stomp you to death. – Dick Gregory

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