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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Best

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Mistakes, Sense, Regrets

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin

Work, Live, Tomorrow

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Thomas Jefferson

Hour, Measured, Speeches

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi

Cause, Prepared

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare

Men, Live, Country

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton

War, Country, Object

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob Marley

Music, Live, Against

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
Mahatma Gandhi

Soldier, Daring, Strongest

When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Learning, Live, Thought

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Enough, Brave

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma Gandhi

Him, Brother, Lives

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, History, Point

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
David Gerrold

Life, Hard, Grateful

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato

Help, Person, Growth

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Health, Yourself, Before

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin

Until, Five, Seventy

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin

Hope, Lives, Fasting

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin

Few, Thousand, Eating

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Work, Happiness

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Money, Men

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
Larry Flynt

Love, Friendship, True

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Heart, Woman

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
John Lennon

Peace, Tired, Fighting

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh

Time, Home, Death

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

End, Human, Race

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Art, Order

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