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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to f

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. – William Shakespeare

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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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