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• For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

  William Gibson

  Heart, Boys, Years

  William Gibson (1974). “A season in heaven: being the log of an expedition after that legendary beast, cosmic consciousness”, Scribner

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• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

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• Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Sacrifice, Men, Political

  "Get Mad as Hell About Citizens United and Register to Vote" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

  Germaine Greer

  Class, Evolution, Charming

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• As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

  Lady Gregory

  Men, Firsts, Greyhounds

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.495, eBookIt.com

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• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  Lady Gregory

  Men, Done, Young

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.521, eBookIt.com

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• Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

  Stanislav Grof

  People, Dying, Culture

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• 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

  Doc Hastings

  Memorial Day, Military, Patriotic

  FaceBook post by Doc Hastings from May 28, 2013

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• The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

  Ira Hayes

  Real, Hero, Firefighter

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• My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

  Amber Heard

  Friendship, Best Friend, Blow

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• Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Rip

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Father, Race

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• The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.

  David Icke

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Interview, metro.co.uk. July 16, 2002.

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• Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Life, Great Love, Red

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.71

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• As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Smell, Long

  "Interview: Bishop TD Jakes on Hell, Politics, Film Projects". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. June 19, 2011.

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• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  T. D. Jakes

  Father, Real, Church

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• The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Mean, People

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview With Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Jeans, People, Hendrix

  "Bon Jovi tells how his wife and kids saved him when the crazy lifestyle got too much". Interview with Billy Sloan, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. November 7, 2010.

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• One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

  Michio Kaku

  Talking, Years, Names

  Interview With Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Fashion, Book

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• A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

  Kesha

  Thinking, Clothes, Teeth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'

  Rodney King

  Kings, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Our Generation, Ties

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.361, Anchor

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• Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Brother, Motivation, Boston

  "The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bombings?" by Jeffrey Kluger, healthland.time.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

  Leo Kottke

  Sibling, Twelve, Noses

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