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"The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."

"The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."

Jane Wagner, American Comedian

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"The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not."

"The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not."

Maria Mitchell, American Scientist

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"Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen."

"Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life."

"Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life."

Mary Baker Eddy, American Theologian

Life, Science, Society, Civilization

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"I stepped from Plank to PlankSo slow and cautiouslyThe Stars about my Head I felt,About my Feet the Sea.I knew not but the nextWould be my final inch -This gave me that precarious GaitSome call Experience."

"I stepped from Plank to PlankSo slow and cautiouslyThe Stars about my Head I felt,About my Feet the Sea.I knew not but the nextWould be my final inch -This gave me that precarious GaitSome call Experience."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Life, Experience, Caution, Journey

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"A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."

Fred Allen, American Comedian

Life, Being, Celebrity

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"We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life."

"We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life."

Bob Seger, American Musician

Life, Time, Months, Practice

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"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."

Jean Paul, German Author

Life, Evening, Fancy, Light

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"Life is a lively process of becoming."

"Life is a lively process of becoming."

Douglas MacArthur, American Soldier

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"I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do."

"I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do."

Lesley Gore, American Musician

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"I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values."

"I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values."

Adrian Lyne, English Director

Life, Values, American

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"I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life."

"I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life."

Ashlee Simpson, American Musician

Life, Business, Time, Positive

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"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."

"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."

Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher

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"Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life."

"Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life."

Laurie Anderson, American Musician

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"Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys."

"Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys."

Laura Prepon, American Actress

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"A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages."

"A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages."

Jerry Hall, American Model

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"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out."

"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out."

Chris Brown, American Musician

Life, Love, Basketball, Day

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"Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life."

"Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life."

Lauren Ambrose, American Actress

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"One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me."

"One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me."

Bill Ford, American Businessman

Life, Management, Being, Company

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"Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity."

"Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity."

Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet

Life, Brevity, Extreme, Rest

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"I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian."

"I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian."

Drew Carey, American Actor

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"The child is father of the man."

"The child is father of the man."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Life, Father, Man

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"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."

"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."

Julian Clary, English Comedian

Life, Gratitude

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"I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information."

"I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information."

Marilu Henner, American Actress

Life, Information

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"In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life."

"In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life."

Julius Erving, American Athlete

Life, Being, Teenage, Universe

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"Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself."

"Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Life, Self, Responsibility, Struggle

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"My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids."

"My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids."

Alan Thicke, Canadian Actor

Life, Being, Boys, Kids

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"It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young."

"It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young."

Dwight Schultz, American Actor

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"Feel the pain. Feel the pleasure. As long as I'm living, I will enjoy every experience that I can. Happiness, glee, passion, peace, fear, pain, I want to feel it all, good or bad. I want to live, not in monotony, in utter craziness. I'm living not dying."

"Feel the pain. Feel the pleasure. As long as I'm living, I will enjoy every experience that I can. Happiness, glee, passion, peace, fear, pain, I want to feel it all, good or bad. I want to live, not in monotony, in utter craziness. I'm living not dying."

Avina Celeste, American Writer

Life, Pain, Pleasure, Living, Experience

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"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me."

"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me."

Ralph Allen, British Politician

Life, Prejudice

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"Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude."

"Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Life, God, Individuality, Infinite

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"The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs."

"The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Life, Transformation, Awareness, Time

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"Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life."

"Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life."

Heinrich Himmler, German Soldier

Life, Now, World

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"Walking through this life really is walking through fire."

"Walking through this life really is walking through fire."

Chaka Khan, American Musician

Life, Fire, Walking

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"P.S. May, don't these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?"

"P.S. May, don't these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?"

Kiera Cass, American Novelist

Life, Joy, Emotion, Observation, Food

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"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

Life, Art, God, Man

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"As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way."

"As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way."

Daniel Nathans, American Scientist

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"How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?"

"How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?"

Marie Lu, American Author

Life, Mortality, Tragedy, Loss, Reflection

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"Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can."

"Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can."

Chris Evert, American Athlete

Life, Goals, Excellence

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"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels."

"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels."

Jerzy Kosinski, Polish Novelist

Life, Cities, Freedom

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"Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something."

"Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Life, Change, Action, Reflection

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"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

Life, Comedy, Tragedy

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"The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence."

"The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence."

Simon Greenleaf, American Judge

Life, Soul, Difference, Facts

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"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."

"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."

Wietse Venema, Dutch Scientist

Life, Physics, Safety, Software

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"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."

"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Life, Children, Trying

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"I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now."

"I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now."

Felicity Kendal, English Actress

Life, Now, Will

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"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."

"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."

Ugo Betti, Italian Playwright

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"Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book."

"Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book."

Sela Ward, American Actress

Life, Chance, Irony, Property

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"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead."

"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead."

Augustine Og Mandino, American Author

Life, Time, Day, Drinking

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"As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better."

"As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better."

Laini Taylor, American Novelist

Life, Hope, Persistence, Resilience

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