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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Death, Knowledge, Nothing

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Harry Houdini

Family, Money, Live

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Joseph Addison

Country, Once, Serve

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
Fred Hampton

Struggle, Off, High

No young man ever thinks he shall die.
William Hazlitt

Young, Shall, Thinks

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
Sophocles

Death, Able, Worst

I hope to die in the saddle seat.
Albert Ellis

Hope, Seat, Saddle

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
Christopher Hitchens

Yourself, Everyone, Alcohol

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.
Quentin Tarantino

Love, Fun, Live

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
Marilyn Manson

Time, Death, Live

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Sam Levenson

Sure, Push, Elevator

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
Alan Cohen

Love, Yourself, Live

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock

Shall, Argue, Agents

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing, Kids, Seriously

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
Morrie Schwartz

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
James M. Barrie

Best, Person, Others

To die will be an awfully big adventure.
James M. Barrie

Big, Adventure, Awfully

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Sophocles

Live, Whether, Nor

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
Quentin Tarantino

Religion, God, Movies

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
John Stuart Mill

Routine, Disease, Inflicts

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
Max Planck

Important, Winning, Happen

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Johnny Carson

Men, Live, Single

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, Memory, Soft

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
Robert Plant

Music, Give, Financial

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
Rita Rudner

War, Fight, Country

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski

Life, Time, End

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.
Christopher Hitchens

Children, Human, Done

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Human, Body, Born

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.
Gene Simmons

Life, Today, Through

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Josh Billings

Happen, Enjoy, Himself

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