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• Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point:
  Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.

  Hank Nuwer

  Teacher, Drinking, Acceptance

  Hank Nuwer (2001). “Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking”, p.194, Indiana University Press

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• I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?

  Alexandra Patsavas

  Kissing, Emotional, Two

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• Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

  Charb

  Country, Jobs, Freedom Of Speech

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• I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.

  Charb

  Knees, Standing

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• You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

  Richard Siken

  Love You, Play, Want

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• For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

  Chris Hardwick

  Creating, Dying, Growing

  "Chris Hardwick discusses his favorite episodes of Nerdist". Interview with Nathan Rabin, aux.avclub.com. March 07, 2013.

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• You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.

  Yara

  Baby, Sleep, Night

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• Job security is a myth...it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Self, People

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• Without Your life I know there is no life. For I was dead in sin and You gave life to me! Without Your life I'd surely rather die! Lord Jesus, live Your life through me! You are life to me!

  Dennis Jernigan

  Jesus, Live Your Life, Sin

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• All that is beautiful shall abide, All that is base shall die.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Beauty, Beautiful

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• There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?

  Norman Borlaug

  Two, People, Volunteer

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• Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

  Pierre Corneille

  Conquer, Resolution, Resolve

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• It becomes an emperor to die standing.

  Vespasian

  Emperor, Standing

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• Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

  Al Sharpton

  Age, Purpose, Old Age

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• There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called "state security" in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.

  Mark Gevisser

  Communication, Past, Play

  "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2009.

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• To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

  Pierre Daninos

  Men, Soul, Gentleman

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• The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Dog, Heart, Men

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• Hopeful men do not die so easily.

  Alexander Dolgun

  Hope, Men, Hopeful

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• There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

  John Kufuor

  Dream, Country, Children

  John Agyekum Kufuor (2001*). “Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001”

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• Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

  Serge Lang

  People, Disease, Courses

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.605, Springer Science & Business Media

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• If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

  Yul Vazquez

  Two, Trying, Acting

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• I want to live. I didn't have time to die.

  Tionne Watkins

  Want

  "T-Boz brings reality to TV". Interview with Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2013.

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• People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

  Ogden Nash

  Eye, Men, People

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• The old men know when an old man dies.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Age, Old Man

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

  Herbert Gold

  Eye, Artist, Imagination

  Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books

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