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“I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.”

Dies History Husband Shots Lifetime Jealous Appointments Jealous Husband

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.”

Ifs Dies Leadership History Retreat Kill Me Follow Me

Book:All's Fair:

Source: All's Fair:

“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.”

Art Philosophy Dies History Casts Hazards

Author:William Shakespeare

“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.”

Ifs Should Dies History Generations Century Civilization Savages Interrupted Transmission

Book:The Lessons of History

Source: The Lessons of History

“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”

Joy Dies History Duty Fit Joy Of Life Do Not Fear

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century