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Life Quotes
"I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist."
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"I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life."
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"What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made."
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"Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand."
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
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"I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again."
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"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life."
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"And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system."
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"It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible."
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"I position everything else in my life around making movies."
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"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."
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"If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us."
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"I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life."
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"I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom."
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"Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again."
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"For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life."
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"I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues."
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"I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all."
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"Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life."
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"Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize."
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"Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance."
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"Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy."
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"You can't base your life on other people's expectations."
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"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another."
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"Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life."
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"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life."
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"There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it."
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