"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."

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"Having a job does not mean living."

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"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."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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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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"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."

Leonard Woodcock, American Celebrity

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"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."

Olin Miller, American Columnist

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"Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them."

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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

John Adams, American President

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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes."

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

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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."

"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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"Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them."

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."

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