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"For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life."

"For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life."

Margaret Fuller, American Critic

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"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."

"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

Life, Age, Work, Influence

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"Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself."

"Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself."

Christy Turlington, American Model

Life, Control, Practice, Word

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"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."

"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."

Maude Adams, American Actress

Life, Failure, Day, Fighting

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"Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings."

"Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings."

Francois Truffaut, French Director

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"I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief."

"I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief."

Julian McMahon, Australian Actor

Life, Father, Meeting, Pretty

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"I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present."

"I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present."

Dirk Benedict, American Actor

Life, Time, First, Parents

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"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

Norman Cousins, American Editor

Life, Hope, Energy, Fact

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"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."

"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."

Charles M. Schulz, American Cartoonist

Life, Time, Day

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"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

Brooke Shields, American Actress

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"The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions."

"The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions."

Paul Klee, Swiss Artist

Life, Art, Expression

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"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life."

"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life."

Edvard Munch, Norwegian Artist

Life, Colors, Painting

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"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

Life, Abundance

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"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

George Meredith, English Novelist

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"This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life."

"This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life."

Julianne Moore, American Actress

Life, Morality, Hurt

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"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges."

"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges."

Harrison Ford, American Actor

Life, People, Day, Job

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"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."

"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."

George Byron, Scottish Poet

Life, Beauty, Duty

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"I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious."

"I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious."

Melanie Griffith, American Actress

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"Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right " no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse."

"Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right " no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse."

J.R. Ward, American Author

Life, Choice, Fate, Decision, Responsibility

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"Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."

"Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."

Lewis Mumford, American Sociologist

Life, Fact, Today

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"I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have."

"I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have."

Mandy Patinkin, American Actor

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"Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives."

"Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives."

Adrian Edmondson, English Actor

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"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."

"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."

William Morris, English Designer

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"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind."

"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Life, Age, Mind

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"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

Sydney J. Harris, American Journalist

Life, People, Feelings

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"It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it."

"It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it."

William Hurt, American Actor

Life, People, Acting, Light

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"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

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"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

Laura Ingalls Wilder, American Author

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"There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men."

"There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men."

Nicolas de Chamfort, French Writer

Life, Men, Time, Will

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"Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."

"Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."

Morris Raphael Cohen, Russian Philosopher

Life, Progress, Achievement, Adventure

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"Life is a school of probability."

"Life is a school of probability."

Walter Bagehot, English Author

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"Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record."

"Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record."

Andre Maurois, French Writer

Life, Art, Work, Artist

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"Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had."

"Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had."

Michael Patrick Jann, American Actor

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"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."

"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."

Elvis Presley, American Musician

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"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."

"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."

Charles Eames, American Designer

Life, End, Will

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"The tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all."

"The tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Life, Time, Truth, Philosophy

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"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."

"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

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"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."

"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."

Robert Kennedy, American Politician

Life, Man, World, Years

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"I love life because what more is there."

"I love life because what more is there."

Anthony Hopkins, Welsh Actor

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"If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical."

"If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical."

Herbert Read, English Poet

Life, Corporate

57

"I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test."

"I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test."

Robert Fulghum, American Author

Life, Money, Thought, Living

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"Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that."

"Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that."

Jon Ronson, Welsh Journalist

Life, Nothing, Sense, Trying

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"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity."

"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity."

William Barclay, Scottish Theologian

Life, Eternity, Importance

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"Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all."

"Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all."

Johnny Depp, American Actor

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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

Life, Nature, Computer, Human nature

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"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."

"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"Everything that happens in your life is beautiful. Find yourself in the appreciation of life."

"Everything that happens in your life is beautiful. Find yourself in the appreciation of life."

Sravani Saha Nakhro, Indian Author

Life, Appreciation, Beauty, Perspective

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"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."

Helen Keller, American Author

Life, Experience, Joy, Limitations, Richness

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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Life, Habit, Chaos, Order

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"When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ['Could the milk man be the devil?']"

"When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ['Could the milk man be the devil?']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Life, Lifestyle, Vanity, Reality, Success

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