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"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."
Anton Chekhov
"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."
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"I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be."
Otis Williams
"I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be."
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"The past is a place of learning, not a place of living."
Roy T. Bennett
"The past is a place of learning, not a place of living."
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"I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?"
Jon Fishman
"I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?"
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"The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself."
Dee Brown
"The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself."
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"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."
Tracy Kidder
"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."
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"Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life."
Charles Scribner, Jr.
"Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life."
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"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
Hector Hugh Munro
"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
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"Everything happened to find the balance of Life."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Everything happened to find the balance of Life."
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"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
Agatha Christie
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
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"Another man whose social life has ruined him."
Dashiell Hammett
"Another man whose social life has ruined him."
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"Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next."
Barbara Johnson
"Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next."
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"Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are."
Bernard Malamud
"Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are."
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"There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing."
Elon Musk
"There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing."
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"If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier."
Jeanette Rankin
"If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier."
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"It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing."
Lemony Snicket
"It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing."
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"I live in the paradise of my imagination."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"I live in the paradise of my imagination."
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"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."
August Strindberg
"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."
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"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long."
Robert Burton
"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long."
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"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
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"Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction."
Dashiell Hammett
"Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction."
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"It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K."
Dave Eggers
"It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K."
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"To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees."
Munshi Premchand
"To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees."
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"Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible."
Bill Kurtis
"Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible."
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"Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for."
Peggy Fleming
"Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for."
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"My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent."
Kevin Eubanks
"My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent."
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"I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life."
Jennie Garth
"I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life."
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"I have all I need."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"I have all I need."
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"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."
Djuna Barnes
"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."
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"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
Blaise Pascal
"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
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"Good music will make you forget all your misery."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Good music will make you forget all your misery."
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"My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more."
Kim Wilde
"My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more."
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"Allow yourself to be alive every single day of your life."
Raphael Zernoff
"Allow yourself to be alive every single day of your life."
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"That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life."
Barbara Mandrell
"That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life."
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"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?"
Charles Baudelaire
"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?"
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"I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life."
Rob Reiner
"I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life."
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"I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life."
Alice Hoffman
"I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life."
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"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."
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"Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body."
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"You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of."
Constantine Karamanlis
"You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of."
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"In your love, I dive,to find the beauty of life."
Debasish Mridha
"In your love, I dive,to find the beauty of life."
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"Think of the life of the working woman as the decathlon. If you even finish it's a miracle."
Barbara Dale
"Think of the life of the working woman as the decathlon. If you even finish it's a miracle."
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"At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't."
Andy Roddick
"At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't."
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"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled."
Henry Adams
"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled."
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"Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."
Nadia Boulanger
"Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."
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"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
Henry David Thoreau
"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
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"I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'"
Abraham Lincoln
"I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'"
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"Life drew me and I followed it."
Alfred Rosenberg
"Life drew me and I followed it."
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"It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery."
Alan Moore
"It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery."
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"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."
Franz Kafka
"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."
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