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"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."
Dag Hammarskjold
"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."
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"I was tired of an outlaw's life."
Frank James
"I was tired of an outlaw's life."
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"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."
Joseph Brodsky
"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."
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"The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is: are you alive before death?"
Osho
"The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is: are you alive before death?"
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"I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity."
Salman Rushdie
"I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity."
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"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."
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"He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven."
Philip Pullman
"He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven."
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"To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life."
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"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."
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"I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband."
Pat Nixon
"I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband."
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"Life is an adventure I am enjoying creating."
Jay Woodman
"Life is an adventure I am enjoying creating."
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"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."
Christian Bale
"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."
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"God's will is that we would be righteous in our living. God is holy, and the whole scheme of redemption has holiness for its goal."
Billy Graham
"God's will is that we would be righteous in our living. God is holy, and the whole scheme of redemption has holiness for its goal."
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"I've met enough KGB colonels in my life."
Garry Kasparov
"I've met enough KGB colonels in my life."
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"I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me."
Rafael Palmeiro
"I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me."
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"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city."
Ruben Blades
"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city."
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"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
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"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."
Jackie Robinson
"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."
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"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."
Emma Goldman
"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."
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"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
Ben Stein
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
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"Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of triesto get there."
J.R. Ward
"Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of triesto get there."
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"We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard."
Mahmoud Abbas
"We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard."
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"Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character."
Linda Lavin
"Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character."
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"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
Charles Lindbergh
"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
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"I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down."
Pat Robertson
"I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down."
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"I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again."
Ulysses S. Grant
"I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again."
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"Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages."
Edwin Louis Cole
"Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages."
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"If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today."
Isabelle Adjani
"If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today."
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"I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life."
Lars von Trier
"I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life."
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"When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life."
Monica Bellucci
"When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life."
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"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best."
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"I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad."
Corazon Aquino
"I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad."
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"Hate is a lack of imagination."
Graham Greene
"Hate is a lack of imagination."
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"Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest."
Peter O'Toole
"Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest."
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"Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life."
Michael Behe
"Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life."
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"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
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"Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip."
Henry Miller
"Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip."
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"Rather be alone, than being with someone who is aloof."
Gift Gugu Mona
"Rather be alone, than being with someone who is aloof."
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"Age and illness made one a dualist."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Age and illness made one a dualist."
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"This is where I have wasted the best years of my life."
Greta Garbo
"This is where I have wasted the best years of my life."
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"The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive."
Santosh Kalwar
"The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive."
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"I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak."
Martin Scorsese
"I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak."
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"The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life."
John Chrysostom
"The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life."
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"My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others."
Gillian Anderson
"My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others."
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"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
James M. Barrie
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
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"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
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"The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric."
Louis Pasteur
"The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric."
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"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
Jackie Robinson
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
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"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."
Malcolm Forbes
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."
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"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft."
Leslie Nielsen
"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft."
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