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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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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we dont like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. – Eliot Spitzer

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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but its such a big thing that you cant. – Damien Hirst

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Death

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. Its a death trap. – Anthony Hopkins

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Death

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself. – Martin Heidegger

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Death

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir, 1869, My First Summer in the Sierra

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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. – Tennessee Williams

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