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When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.


Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People choose their death when they choose how they live.
OLASOT Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
EUGENE BENGE Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In the face of death, we will continue to choose and sanctify life.
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SENECA Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
HAMID KARZAI Life without the courage for death is slavery
SENECA Life without the courage for death is slavery.
SENECA Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death
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TITE KUBO Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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GARY F EVANS... When we die, death becomes our new life, and life becomes our old death.
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MOLI Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
MOLIERE Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
PEARL S. BUCK Death is superior to life because,death always kills life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life is a battlefield & competitive ground between two major unseen forces;Life & Death.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
BUDDHA He flashes a grin that is two parts death and one part humor.
ROBIN LAFEVERS It is never life of death; life is here and death is on its way.
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ORSON SCOTT CARD If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
SAMUEL BUTLER Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one
PHILIP MASSINGER Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Death is the retirement from life.
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MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN No, it is actually. Life and death are less life-and-death than love is." -Nora
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
ROBERT JORDAN For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death
JOHN OXENHAM For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.
JOHN OXENHAM For death begins with life's first breath, and life begins at touch of death.
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VIKTOR E. FRANKL Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Life and death are two sides of the same coin called destiny.
MUHAMMED HAIDER Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not
EPICURUS Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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JERRY GARCIA Death does not end my life, it opens the door to a life without end.
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MIRA GRANT To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the sa...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Death is the bride of Life and Suicide is the brother of Death.
VIKRANT PARSAI Life can never be fully satisfied,without inviting death to complete it's journey.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I would choose a death with hunger instead of feeding my stomach poison.
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ENZO FERRARI Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
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