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• For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.

  Paul Eldridge

  Believe, Tin, Crowns

  Paul Eldridge (1960). “Seven against the night”

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• I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am always ready to die for the protection of the weak and oppressed in their just rights. The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, America, Rights

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• I'm not ready to die. Period. To begin with, I cannot imagine a future without me in it. Can't do it.

  Robert Schimmel

  Death, Imagine, Periods

  Robert Schimmel, Alan Eisenstock (2008). “Cancer on Five Dollars a Day Chemo Not Included: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

  Garth Ennis

  Devil, Ready, Dies

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• We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

  Patrick Pearse

  Grieving, Ready, Dies

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• Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heaven, Baptists, Denominations

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• I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

  May Sarton

  Life And Death, Learning To Trust, Ready

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver of an old man's voice. 'Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn...' He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. 'Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Summer, Letting Go, Strong

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trying, Facts, Opinion

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Believe, Men, Creeds

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.62, David C Cook

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• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  E. B. White

  Political, Dying, Adults

  "The Thud of Ideas," The New Yorker, September 23, 1950.

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• We're young men; we're not ready to die.

  Kevin Cosgrove

  Men, September 11, Young

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• Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.

  Friedrich Engels

  Horse, Father, Stupid

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• I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

  Thomas Becket

  Peace, Blood, Dying

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• There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

  Louis Armstrong

  Kings, Looks, Parades

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• There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Compassion, Essence, Envy

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• No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

  David Lloyd George

  Democracies Have, Long, People

  David Lloyd George “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1917-1918”

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• My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Pain, Father, Cancer

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• He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'

  Daniel Woodrell

  Chance, Ready, Dies

  "Daniel Woodrell: Writer" by Tyler Cabot, www.esquire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

  William Shatner

  Death, Suicide, Might

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• Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pregnancy, Pride, Guilt

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