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"Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism."
Abe Fortas
"Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism."
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"By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life."
Levon Helm
"By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life."
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"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
Aphra Behn
"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
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"I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd."
Jeff Tweedy
"I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd."
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"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."
Sholom Aleichem
"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."
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"You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense."
Rick Warren
"You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense."
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"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."
Mike Tyson
"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."
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"I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!"
Richard Chamberlain
"I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!"
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"That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible."
Marc Almond
"That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible."
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"They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life."
Harold Rosenberg
"They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life."
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"Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it."
James Huneker
"Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it."
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"My whole life has been one of seeking experience."
Jerry Kramer
"My whole life has been one of seeking experience."
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"Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life."
Jack K. Cooke
"Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life."
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"What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control."
Butch Otter
"What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control."
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"Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film."
Elisabeth Rohm
"Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film."
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"Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt."
Robert Kirkman
"Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt."
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"How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?"
Gregorio M. Sierra
"How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?"
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"One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground."
Sonny Perdue
"One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground."
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"For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity."
Arthur Peacocke
"For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity."
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"You express different energies at different times in your life."
Marisa Tomei
"You express different energies at different times in your life."
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"There is more to hear in what is not said."
Joyce Rachelle
"There is more to hear in what is not said."
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"The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived."
Gilda Radner
"The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived."
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"So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship."
George J. Mitchell
"So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship."
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"I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it."
Greg Norman
"I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it."
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"I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first."
Sharon Osbourne
"I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first."
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"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
Jane Addams
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
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"I've seen some of the most violent hard cases in the city twinkling through a quickstep and dipping into a tango with an aplomb and skill that would have earned them a guest spot on Come Dancing."
Stephen Richards
"I've seen some of the most violent hard cases in the city twinkling through a quickstep and dipping into a tango with an aplomb and skill that would have earned them a guest spot on Come Dancing."
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"When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school."
Dave Lombardo
"When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school."
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"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
Carl Jung
"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
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"Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner."
James Wolcott
"Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner."
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"Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!"
David Krumholtz
"Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!"
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"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."
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"I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little."
Pat Conroy
"I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little."
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"It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions."
Gordon B. Hinckley
"It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions."
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"Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life."
Angie Everhart
"Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
Woody Allen
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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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."
Robert Dale Owen
"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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"I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting."
Peter Stormare
"I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting."
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"Josey shook her head, thinking, if Della Lee were a candy, she would be a SweeTart. Not the hard kind that broke your teeth, the chewy kind, the kind you had to work on and mull over, your eyes watering and your lips turning up into a smile you didn't want to give."
Sarah Addison Allen
"Josey shook her head, thinking, if Della Lee were a candy, she would be a SweeTart. Not the hard kind that broke your teeth, the chewy kind, the kind you had to work on and mull over, your eyes watering and your lips turning up into a smile you didn't want to give."
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"There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life."
John Doolittle
"There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life."
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"For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities."
Dianne Feinstein
"For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities."
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"What we are missing over here is the life of soccer."
Thomas Dooley
"What we are missing over here is the life of soccer."
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"If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them."
John Kasich
"If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them."
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"I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things."
Ruth Pitter
"I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things."
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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."
Warren Farrell
"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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"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."
Ruben Hinojosa
"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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"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."
David Gerrold
"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."
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"We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people."
Michael Huffington
"We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people."
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"In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?"
Jamie Foxx
"In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?"
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"New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning."
Robert Asprin
"New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning."
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