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Life Quotes
"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations."
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"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case."
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"Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified."
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"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."
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"I many times thought peace had come, When peace was far away; As wrecked men deem they sight the land At centre of the sea, And struggle slacker, but to prove, As hopelessly as I, How many the fictitious shores Before the harbor lie."
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"I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in."
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"What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."
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"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
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"I've made a life and career as a professional musician."
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"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
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"Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead."
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"The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier."
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"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."
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"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life."
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"Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view."
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"If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit."
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"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss."
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"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true."
Life,
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"There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa."
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"Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port."
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"The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives."
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"Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order."
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"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses."
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"I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!"
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"I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work."
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"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."
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"But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got."
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"Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad."
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"Life wants you to be complete unto yourself, generally enjoy and expand consciousness, open, explore, love."
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"The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!"
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"He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as he could see at least ten of its functions consisted of apologizing for its inefficiency in the other five."
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"We live in a world of shadow and light, pain and joy. We spend our entire lives investigating the many possible patterns of human experience including interactions between humankind and nature and with one another. We must learn from our chronicles and assist future generations by living a fully engaged life attempting to ascertain how to live in an authentic and joyous manner."
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