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Life Quotes
"When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver."
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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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"I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general."
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"I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too."
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"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me."
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"Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life."
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"I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life."
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"Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it."
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"I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected."
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"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
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"I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community."
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"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems."
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"I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that."
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"I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life."
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"Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again."
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"When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers."
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"I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private."
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"The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute."
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"Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend."
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"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."
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"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."
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"You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it."
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"I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it."
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"Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either."
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"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
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"I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better."
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"The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation."
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"I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion."
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"It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist."
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