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  • [N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

    Running   War   Fall  
  • The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

    Death   Running   Faster  
  • You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

    Life   Happiness   Death  
    Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin
  • You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

    Life   Meaningful   Peace  
  • The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

    "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.
  • Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

    Life   Death   Debt  
  • You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

    "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

    Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin
  • Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

    Let Us Have Faith (1940)
  • The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

    Powerful   Passion   Men  
    "The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.
  • Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

  • It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

    Life   Moving On   Death  
    Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

    Funny   Bible   Witty  
    "George Carlin, R.I.P." by David Gibson, www.beliefnet.com. June 2008.
  • You can't find peace by avoiding life.

  • Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
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