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"Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life."
Dorothy Day
"Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life."
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"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
Horace Walpole
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
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"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
Steven Weinberg
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
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"The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next."
Melinda Gates
"The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next."
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"I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?"
John Templeton
"I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?"
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"Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life."
Jerry Weller
"Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life."
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"I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more."
Eva Herzigova
"I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more."
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"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."
Jodie Foster
"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."
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"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."
Seneca
"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."
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"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."
Robert B. Parker
"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."
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"In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot."
Patti Smith
"In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot."
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"Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me."
Gunther Schuller
"Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me."
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"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
Morris West
"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
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"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart."
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"Life was never meant to be a rehearsal."
Sravani Saha Nakhro
"Life was never meant to be a rehearsal."
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"Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again."
Harper Lee
"Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again."
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"We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me."
Dawn Fraser
"We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me."
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"If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?"
Scott Speedman
"If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?"
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"If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade."
Joan Collins
"If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade."
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"Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth."
Thomas Huxley
"Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth."
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"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."
Frank McCourt
"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."
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"Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended."
Steven Redhead
"Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended."
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"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
Sandra Cisneros
"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
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"My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?"
Fiona Apple
"My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?"
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"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount."
Joseph Addison
"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount."
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"I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided that any responsible, thinking individual should have the right to reject this gift that had never been asked for - and whose noble gesture re-emphasised with each passing decade the compromise and littleness that most lives consist of. 'Most lives': my life."
Julian Barnes
"I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided that any responsible, thinking individual should have the right to reject this gift that had never been asked for - and whose noble gesture re-emphasised with each passing decade the compromise and littleness that most lives consist of. 'Most lives': my life."
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"Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ."
Kenneth L. Pike
"Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ."
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"Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose."
Lynn Davies
"Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose."
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"I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there."
"I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there."
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"Our whole life is solving puzzles."
Erno Rubik
"Our whole life is solving puzzles."
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"But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want."
Anita Roddick
"But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want."
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"We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future."
A.J. Darkholme
"We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future."
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"If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you."
Asa Don Brown
"If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you."
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"Life is one long jubilee."
Ira Gershwin
"Life is one long jubilee."
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"While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live."
John Oldham
"While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live."
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"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."
Conor Oberst
"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."
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"It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security."
Agnetha Faltskog
"It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security."
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"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath."
Mary Wollstonecraft
"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath."
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"Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school."
Evan Sayet
"Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school."
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"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized."
Mike Ditka
"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized."
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"In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation."
Barbara Olson
"In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation."
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"I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone."
Faith Hill
"I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone."
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"I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere."
Stephen Chbosky
"I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere."
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"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."
John Tyndall
"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."
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"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
Robert B. Parker
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
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"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."
Frank Moore Colby
"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."
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"We met at the blue lagoon on the even of a full moon. Dancing wild like those gypsy girls, with their messy hair and glittering eyes. We made magic behind the mangrove trees and ended up with bruised knees, as the sound of the win and the waves serenaded us late into the sweet bohemian night."
Melody Lee
"We met at the blue lagoon on the even of a full moon. Dancing wild like those gypsy girls, with their messy hair and glittering eyes. We made magic behind the mangrove trees and ended up with bruised knees, as the sound of the win and the waves serenaded us late into the sweet bohemian night."
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"I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher."
Stephen Malkmus
"I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher."
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"A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't."
Joe Manchin
"A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't."
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"I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company."
George Wald
"I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company."
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