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"Having a job does not mean living."
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Personal Development
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast."
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Personal Development
"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."
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"Monuments are for the living, not the dead."
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"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
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Personal Development
"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."
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"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."
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"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
Wisdom
"I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another."
Grief
"For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War's money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear, Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul; Yea, fills the light urn full With what survived the flame- Death's dusty measure of a hero's frame!"
Reality
"And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered."
Tragedy
"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
Emotional
"Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting."
Change
"Time as he grows old teaches all things."
Time
"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
Advice
"The wisest of the wise may err."
Fallibility
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
Friendship
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