Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
Stanislav Grof

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
Casey Kasum

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
Ed Markey

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.
Howard Coble

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.
Frank Shorter

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
Skitch Henderson

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
Anthony Trollope

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
Sydney Schanberg

Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.
Tom Tancredo

Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
Mary Landrieu

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Grace Napolitano

The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise.
Ben Pimlott

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
Bill O'Reilly

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
Allen Klein