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Life Quotes


"Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it."


"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."


"Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie."


"Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor."



"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."
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"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that."


"I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way."


"At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold."



"In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems."


"Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7."


"My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could."


"Strangest problems of life seem clearing, but clouds sweep between--Is my journey's end coming?"


"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."


"We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment."


"I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!"


"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."


"No one OWES you a THING. So don't EXPECT it. You're on your OWN."


"I feel as if I am being left out, as though I'm some straggler and people can't quite remember to stay back for me."


"I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore."


"You are part of God's plan and if you stop yourself because you don't think you are not good enough, we lose your unique and needed contribution to the world. Your life was a gift, and what you do with it will be a gift to God."



"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching."


"And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own."


"It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer."


"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."



"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
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