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Quote by Pierre Corneille
To die for ones country is such a worthy fate that all compete for

To die for ones country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. – Pierre Corneille

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. – Alice Walker

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius

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The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death. – Stanislav Grof

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Silence is more musical than any song. – Christina Rossetti

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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. – William Irwin Thompson

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I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actors Studio. Shed get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldnt leave her alone. She didnt know where to hide. – Doris Roberts

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