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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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"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism."
Johan Huizinga
"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism."
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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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"Be yourself, take control of your life."
Emma Bunton
"Be yourself, take control of your life."
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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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"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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"Every day I am trying to improve my life."
Alicia Machado
"Every day I am trying to improve my life."
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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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"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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"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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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
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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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"For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life."
Cao Yu
"For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains."
Jessica Hagedorn
"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains."
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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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"I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman."
Chavela Vargas
"I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman."
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"During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life."
Philip Emeagwali
"During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life."
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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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"Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us."
Carl Jung
"Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us."
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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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"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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"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."
George Arliss
"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."
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"Life begins at forty."
Walter B. Pitkin
"Life begins at forty."
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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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"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."
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"Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life."
Billie Jean King
"Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life."
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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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"A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky."
Kenko Yoshida
"A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky."
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"Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
Lao Tzu
"Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
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"All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything."
Ahmed Ali
"All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything."
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"My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created."
Michael Schumacher
"My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created."
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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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"Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity."
Imelda Marcos
"Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity."
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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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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
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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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"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 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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"I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day."
Geoffrey Holder
"I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day."
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"Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best."
Jessica Hagedorn
"Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best."
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"Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life."
Stijn Streuvels
"Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life."
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