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"Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons."
Bern Williams
"Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons."
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"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills."
Clifford Odets
"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills."
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"Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs."
Xavier Becerra
"Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs."
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"Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life."
Bryan Adams
"Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life."
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"Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now."
Alison Bechdel
"Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now."
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"A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to."
Mark Kelly
"A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to."
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"To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does."
Pat Conroy
"To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does."
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
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"I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank."
Pete Rose
"I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank."
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"A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?"
Walter Pater
"A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?"
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"If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life."
Mia Maestro
"If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life."
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"My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer."
George Benson
"My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer."
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"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought."
Sylvia Plath
"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought."
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"In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns."
Jason Schwartzman
"In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns."
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"Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions."
Stefan Kanfer
"Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions."
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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."
Elizabeth Dole
"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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"This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing."
"This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing."
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"Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life."
Leni Riefenstahl
"Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life."
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"If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me."
Saint Patrick
"If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me."
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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."
George Weinberg
"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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"I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement."
Astrid Lindgren
"I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement."
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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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"Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?"Any nausea? Headache?" Yep. And it's standing here talking to me."
James Patterson
"Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?"Any nausea? Headache?" Yep. And it's standing here talking to me."
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"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."
John Hurt
"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."
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"Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend."
Jim Cramer
"Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend."
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"Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life."
Jimmy Dean
"Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life."
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"I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable."
Tupac Shakur
"I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable."
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"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
Stephen Vincent Benet
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
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"He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it."
Max Stirner
"He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it."
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"Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm."
Louis Farrakhan
"Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm."
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"I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character."
Sam Neill
"I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character."
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"On Mars, the joke went, a man's hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room."
James S.A. Corey
"On Mars, the joke went, a man's hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room."
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"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life."
J. M. Coetzee
"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life."
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"I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?"
George Steinbrenner
"I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?"
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"Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in."
Saul Alinsky
"Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in."
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"Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive."
John Fowles
"Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive."
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"What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?"
Patrick Ness
"What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?"
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"Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?"
Barbet Schroeder
"Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?"
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"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life."
Ben Sweetland
"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life."
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"As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be."
Emmet Fox
"As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be."
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"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."
Idries Shah
"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."
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"In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something else - regret."
J.R. Rim
"In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something else - regret."
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"Some things cannot be taught, they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey."
Roy T. Bennett
"Some things cannot be taught, they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey."
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"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey."
Pat Conroy
"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey."
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"I'm a minor player in my own life story."
Tony Wilson
"I'm a minor player in my own life story."
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"For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am."
Kate Bush
"For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am."
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"To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting."
Peter Stormare
"To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting."
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"Moreover, you can't stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it's no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels."
Horace
"Moreover, you can't stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it's no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels."
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"Life well spent is long."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Life well spent is long."
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"I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world."
Al Purdy
"I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world."
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