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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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"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 XIV
"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 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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"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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"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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"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace."
King Hussein I
"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace."
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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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"Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk."
Stanislav Grof
"Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk."
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"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
Walt Disney
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
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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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"Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life."
Charles Eastman
"Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life."
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"Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all."
Cathy Freeman
"Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all."
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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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"Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life."
Nicole Kidman
"Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life."
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"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly."
Joseph Rotblat
"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly."
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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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"Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning."
Arvo Part
"Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning."
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"I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life."
Alicia Machado
"I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life."
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"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
Coco Chanel
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
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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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"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Harvey Fierstein
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
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"Never again will your footsteps b repeated upon this earth. your life is the life that can make a difference."
Sravani Saha Nakhro
"Never again will your footsteps b repeated upon this earth. your life is the life that can make a difference."
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"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."
Maxim Gorky
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."
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"What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now."
Kazuo Ishiguro
"What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now."
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"I will protect democracy with my life."
Thaksin Shinawatra
"I will protect democracy with my life."
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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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"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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"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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"Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life."
Luis Palau
"Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life."
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"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
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"We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda."
Silvan Shalom
"We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda."
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"Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow."
Ricardo Montalban
"Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow."
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"In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously."
Pras Michel
"In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously."
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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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"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love."
Rumi
"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love."
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"The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life."
Arthur Koestler
"The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life."
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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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"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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"Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life."
Rita Moreno
"Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life."
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"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear."
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"I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it."
Bai Ling
"I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it."
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"I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots."
Luis Guzman
"I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots."
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"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
Warren Buffett
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
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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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"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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"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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"That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life."
Ella Maillart
"That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life."
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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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