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Life Quotes
"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
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"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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"It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph."
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"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
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"Life, if well lived, is long enough."
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"It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away."
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"Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all."
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"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."
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"You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another."
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"The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy."
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"The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life."
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"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
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"We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away."
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"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me."
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"For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make."
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"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case."
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"I many times thought peace had come, When peace was far away; As wrecked men deem they sight the land At centre of the sea, And struggle slacker, but to prove, As hopelessly as I, How many the fictitious shores Before the harbor lie."
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"I was moved beyond words. The train ride over the mountains from lake Titticaca to Cusco reminded me of Africa where I grew up; and 4 days walking on the Inca Trail, then more in the jungle, just magnificent - time, space, and splendour. Our planet is superb!"
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"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."
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"When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character."
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