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Life Quotes


"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."


"My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird."



"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."


"City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur."


"I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one."



"I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense."



"Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life."


"I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person."


"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."


"In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished."


"I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately."


"If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy."



"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working."



"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."



"Most people live their life around what other people do."



"To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity."


"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."


"In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures."


"You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by."


"It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it."


"Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old."


"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."
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"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."


"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."
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"The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on."


"I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time."
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