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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."
Albert Schweitzer
"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."
Charles Bradlaugh
"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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"As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible."
Hank Stram
"As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible."
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
William James
"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
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"But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want."
Anita Roddick
"But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want."
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"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
Annie Dillard
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
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"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life."
Jenny Agutter
"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life."
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"The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body."
J.R. Ward
"The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body."
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"When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible."
Jim Morris
"When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible."
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"If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life."
Tim Conway
"If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life."
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"Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job."
Kate Bosworth
"Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job."
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"Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument."
Leon Kass
"Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument."
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"So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself."
Katie Couric
"So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself."
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"He had been frightened and so he had been vehement."
Graham Greene
"He had been frightened and so he had been vehement."
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"I don't have a lot of regrets in my life."
Cathy Freeman
"I don't have a lot of regrets in my life."
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"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."
Conor Oberst
"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."
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"It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree."
Annie Dillard
"It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree."
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"A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed."
George Carlin
"A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed."
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"Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying."
Thomas Paine
"Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying."
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"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."
Kate Adie
"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."
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"Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that."
Josh Holloway
"Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that."
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"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations."
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"It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else."
Mariska Hargitay
"It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else."
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"Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we're all dying " nay, we're all dead " and it is up to us to be our own self-necromancers to find some form of life and spirit to reanimate the corpse of a life spent wanting."
A.J. Darkholme
"Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we're all dying " nay, we're all dead " and it is up to us to be our own self-necromancers to find some form of life and spirit to reanimate the corpse of a life spent wanting."
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"One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways."
Peter McWilliams
"One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways."
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"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."
Katherine Mansfield
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."
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"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized."
Mike Ditka
"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized."
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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."
Henry Van Dyke
"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."
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"Life is a great bundle of little things."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Life is a great bundle of little things."
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"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."
John Tyndall
"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."
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"People who kill time are themselves not alive."
Amit Abraham
"People who kill time are themselves not alive."
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"When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking."
Sarah Jessica Parker
"When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking."
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"The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week."
Jarvis Cocker
"The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week."
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"Life has a higher end, than to be amused."
William Ellery Channing
"Life has a higher end, than to be amused."
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"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
Robert B. Parker
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
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"There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life."
Stuart Pearce
"There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life."
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"I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them."
Kate DiCamillo
"I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them."
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"P.S. May, don't these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?"
Kiera Cass
"P.S. May, don't these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?"
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"The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life."
Thomas Dooley
"The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life."
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"To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know?"
Virginia Madsen
"To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know?"
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"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
Josh Billings
"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
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"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."
Mary Harris Jones
"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."
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"As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted."
Francesca Annis
"As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted."
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"The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that."
Simon Pegg
"The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that."
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"Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."
Bruce Babbitt
"Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."
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"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."
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"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
Samuel Butler
"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
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"The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes."
Henrik Ibsen
"The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes."
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"What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way."
Skeet Ulrich
"What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way."
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"Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy."
Hamlin Garland
"Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy."
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