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Life Quotes


"This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists."


"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."


"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."


"I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough."


"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."


"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside."


"I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life."


"My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others."


"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."


"No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad."
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"Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life."


"Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House."
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"Globalization is a fact of economic life."


"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."


"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."



"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them."


"A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity."



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


"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity."


"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."


"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."


"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
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