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"Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins."
Frank Dane
"Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins."
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"Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life."
Joe Eszterhas
"Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life."
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"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
George Bernard Shaw
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
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"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."
Soren Kierkegaard
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."
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"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American."
Miriam Makeba
"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American."
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"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been."
Margaret Mahy
"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been."
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"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."
Bede Griffiths
"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."
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"When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters."
Martin Yan
"When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters."
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"The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility."
Oded Fehr
"The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility."
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"I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life."
Janos Kadar
"I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life."
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"We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach."
Kjell Magne Bondevik
"We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach."
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"Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another."
Augusto Roa Bastos
"Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another."
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"Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life."
Nuno Bettencourt
"Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life."
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"While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty."
Tran Duc Luong
"While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty."
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"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist."
John McGahern
"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist."
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"With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying."
Wilt Chamberlain
"With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying."
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"The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry."
John Jensen
"The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry."
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"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman."
Samuel Johnson
"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman."
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
R. D. Laing
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
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"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
Dalai Lama
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
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"I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life."
Compay Segundo
"I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life."
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"All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap."
Dejan Stojanovic
"All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap."
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"As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century."
Kenzaburo Oe
"As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century."
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"I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people."
Mohammed Omar
"I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people."
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"From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that."
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that."
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"Be yourself, take control of your life."
Emma Bunton
"Be yourself, take control of your life."
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"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."
Dag Hammarskjold
"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."
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"I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life."
Patricia Velasquez
"I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life."
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"When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!"
Agnetha Faltskog
"When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!"
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"I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist."
Brandon Boyd
"I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist."
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"We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands."
Nong Duc Manh
"We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands."
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"All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there."
V. S. Naipaul
"All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there."
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"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
Omar Khayyam
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
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"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice."
Jose Rizal
"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice."
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"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."
Marcus Aurelius
"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."
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"But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York."
Christo
"But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York."
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"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life."
Lord Mountbatten
"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life."
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"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."
Louisa May Alcott
"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."
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"Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again."
Omar Khayyam
"Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again."
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"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
John Patrick
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
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"If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour."
Jose Marti
"If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour."
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"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living."
Christian Bale
"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living."
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"Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated."
Milan Kundera
"Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated."
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"Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes."
King Hussein I
"Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes."
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"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."
Kazuo Ishiguro
"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."
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"The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led."
Giacomo Casanova
"The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led."
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"It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it."
Tim Finn
"It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it."
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"We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged."
Isabel Allende
"We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged."
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"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Confucius
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
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"Every seed is awakened, and all animal life."
Sitting Bull
"Every seed is awakened, and all animal life."
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