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Life Quotes
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
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"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."
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"Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others."
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."
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"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
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"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
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"When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?"
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"A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life."
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"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed."
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"It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly."
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"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."
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"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."
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"The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying."
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"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
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"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
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"The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning."
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"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."
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"There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do."
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"Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free."
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"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive."
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"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."
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"It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions."
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"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can."
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"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
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"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."
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"Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations."
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"I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me."
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"I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me."
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"I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside."
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"The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly."
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