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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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"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
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"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause."
Omar Bongo
"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause."
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"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."
Epicurus
"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."
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"But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion."
Todd McFarlane
"But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion."
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"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
Sigmund Freud
"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
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"Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself."
Gene Simmons
"Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself."
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"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."
Luigi Pirandello
"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."
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"Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life."
Thomas Haden Church
"Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life."
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"I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came."
Gene Tierney
"I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came."
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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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"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."
Saint Augustine
"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."
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"There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here.""
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here.""
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"I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people."
Camryn Manheim
"I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people."
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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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"Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow."
Dirk Benedict
"Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow."
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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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"The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in."
Jason Alexander
"The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in."
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"I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives."
Katherine Dunham
"I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives."
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"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
Walter Pater
"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
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"The dust cannot fight against the wind, the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"The dust cannot fight against the wind, the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!"
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"My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other."
Stephen Sondheim
"My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other."
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"In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation."
Eduard Shevardnadze
"In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation."
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"Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever."
David Gest
"Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever."
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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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"Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt."
Sigourney Weaver
"Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt."
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"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
William Graham Sumner
"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
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"Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."
Morris Raphael Cohen
"Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."
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"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."
Desiderius Erasmus
"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."
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"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."
Tennessee Williams
"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."
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"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."
Irving Berlin
"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."
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"Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act."
Charles Eastman
"Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act."
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"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
Seamus Heaney
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
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"What we play is life."
Louis Armstrong
"What we play is life."
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"My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen."
Natalie Portman
"My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen."
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"Let us be awake and live every moment of our precious, loving, and spontaneous life."
Debasish Mridha
"Let us be awake and live every moment of our precious, loving, and spontaneous life."
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"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."
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"As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in."
Benny Goodman
"As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in."
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"I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life."
Corazon Aquino
"I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life."
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"I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees."
Ziggy Marley
"I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees."
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"It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life."
Franz Boas
"It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life."
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"The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable."
Winston Churchill
"The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable."
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"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
Freeman Dyson
"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
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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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"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
Henry Rollins
"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
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"There is no life without struggle."
Santosh Kalwar
"There is no life without struggle."
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"As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life."
Charles Baudelaire
"As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life."
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"There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet."
Mitchell Baker
"There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet."
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"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."
Doris Lessing
"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."
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"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."
Hippocrates
"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."
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