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Life Quotes
"During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come."
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"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
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"I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene."
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"A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people."
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"My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night is also a sun " be gone, or you will learn: a wise man is also a fool."
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"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
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"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."
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"The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class."
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"And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway."
137
"Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
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"Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy."
133
"If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children."
132
"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."
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"Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs."
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"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
130
"When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world."
128
"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
127
"If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon."
126
"We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches."
124
"So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that."
Life,
123
"All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap."
123
"One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this."
121
"It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else."
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"I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
112
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
111
"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."
111
"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges."
111
"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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