“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”

— Carl Sandburg

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American writer and editor 1878–1967

James Berardinelli (1967) American film critic

Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=310 of Live Free or Die Hard (2007).
Two-and-a-half star reviews

“Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.”

David Ogilvy (1911–1999) Advertising executive

“Its hard to die. Harder to live”

Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion

“Customer Discovery is damn hard work. You can't fake it.”

Steve Blank (1953) American businessman

Source: The Four Steps to the Epiphany (2013), p. 50.

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

Newt Gingrich (1943) Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

“It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“I die hard but am not afraid to go.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

I believed from my first attack that I should not survive it — my breath cannot last long.
The first sentence here is sometimes presented as being his last statement before dying, but they are reported as part of the fuller statement, and as being said in the afternoon prior to his death in Life of Washington (1859) by Washington Irving, and his actual last words are stated to have been those reported by Tobias Lear below.
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