Button mashing will get you only one place: dead.

FORBES: The Unique Combat Of 'Dark Souls'

One day you know more dead people than live ones.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Citizen Vince'

"I won't tell you that one or the other is dead because I don't know, " he said.

BBC: Islamist commander Abou Zeid's death in Mali 'probable'

If you could carve one second into a thousand slices, that would be a millisecond and about how quickly you could trade dead Wilbur.

WSJ: An Economy Caught in a Web

Christian churches may now require only one sincere affirmation: that you believe Jesus rose from the dead.

ECONOMIST: Jesus

If you dropped dead, you heirs got a big check (One of the most ingenious marketing ploys in history was to call it life insurance rather than death insurance).

FORBES: Phantom Income From Life Insurance

One of the most dangerous false beliefs is that you are either the quick or the dead.

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And if you can't think of any, you can always pull this one out in a pinch: 'GLIB, SWEEPING PRONOUNCEMENTS ARE DEAD.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Asia Buzz: Glib Is Good

This is, perhaps, the only car in the world that really needs one -- given the fact that if you run out of fuel, you're dead in the water -- and it's nowhere to be found.

CNN: Natural-gas guzzler

Everywhere you looked, one of them seemed to be staring at nothing, drinking it in, transfixed: a dead stalk of dock weed or the blank corner of a stone wall or an icicle dribbled from the lip of a gutter.

NEWYORKER: She��s the One