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Life Quotes
"At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't."
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"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."
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"Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had."
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"No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance."
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"I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth."
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"But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity."
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"I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?"
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"On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life."
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"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."
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"Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions."
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"Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn't want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line."
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"My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life."
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"When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke."
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"Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill."
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"Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize."
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"I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up."
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"Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life."
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"An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important."
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"Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music."
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"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."
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"We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue."
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"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
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"Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever."
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"I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine."
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"Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life's good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to distinguish between loneliness (experienced by default), and solitude (choosing when and how to enjoy my own company), as I began a journey of engaging the world on my own terms. Over the years, that journey deepened as I traveled life's roads with increasing independence and confidence, whether I was attending graduate school at night while working during the day, buying my first house or changing careers."
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"Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician."
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"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."
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"I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet."
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