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Life Quotes


"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."


"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."



"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."


"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."



"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."


"Rather be alone, than being with someone who is aloof."


"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."


"The dust cannot fight against the wind, the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!"


"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."



"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."



"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."



"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."


"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."


"My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen."


"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."


"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."


"The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable."


"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."


"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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