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Life Quotes


"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."


"It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess."


"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."


"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."


"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."


"Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins."


"If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out."


"There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights."


"But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years."


"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."


"Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it."


"The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across our way of life. They have the tone of the battle call in them. They separate the weak from the strong. But they are words of inspiration, and we need to hear them today."


"You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life."


"All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap."


"In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure."


"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
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"Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine."



"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."


"The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media."


"Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that."


"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."


"If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you."


"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."


"India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West."


"Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion."


"In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle."


"I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist."


"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on."



"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."


"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics."
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