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Life Quotes


"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."


"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."


"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."


"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."


"School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them."



"Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone."


"Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle."


"I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow."



"The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc."


"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."



"Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive."


"I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing."


"Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?"


"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."


"It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak."


"Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition."
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"I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again."


"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."


"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille."
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"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life."


"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."


"On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged."
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