"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."

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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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Imogen Cunningham, American Photographer

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Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist

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"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

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Eugene Ionesco, French Dramatist

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"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

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"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."

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Edna Ferber, American Novelist

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