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"It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going."
George MacDonald
"It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going."
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"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
Miguel de Unamuno
"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
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"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
Bill Watterson
"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
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"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."
Charles de Montesquieu
"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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"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
Sandra Cisneros
"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
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"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."
Richard Dawkins
"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."
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"In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old."
Alfred Marshall
"In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old."
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"Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity."
Antonio Porchia
"Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity."
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"The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience."
Dario Argento
"The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience."
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"Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'"
Mary Kay Blakely
"Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'"
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"It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine."
Portia de Rossi
"It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine."
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"I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you."
Drew Barrymore
"I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you."
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"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."
Julian Clary
"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."
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"To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life."
Peter R. Grant
"To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life."
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"We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is."
Brian Lumley
"We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is."
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"I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will."
Jonathan Safran Foer
"I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will."
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"If life gives you limes, make margaritas."
Jimmy Buffett
"If life gives you limes, make margaritas."
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"Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself."
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself."
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"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself."
Tennessee Williams
"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself."
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"TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance."
Rebecca H. Davis
"TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance."
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"I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time."
Wyclef Jean
"I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time."
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"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."
Samuel Richardson
"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."
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"I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle."
Barbara Kruger
"I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle."
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"It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young."
Dwight Schultz
"It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young."
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"I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone."
Faith Hill
"I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone."
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"After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist."
Edgar Bergen
"After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist."
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"A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice."
David Mitchell
"A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice."
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"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."
Henry Miller
"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."
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"My aim in life is not to judge."
Jeanne Moreau
"My aim in life is not to judge."
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"The difficulty in life is the choice."
George A. Moore
"The difficulty in life is the choice."
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
Elias Canetti
"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
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"Life is short and progress is slow."
Gabriel Lippmann
"Life is short and progress is slow."
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"Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many."
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"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still."
Phillips Brooks
"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still."
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"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life."
Paul A. Volcker
"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life."
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"Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great."
Chantal Kreviazuk
"Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great."
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"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."
Richard Attenborough
"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."
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"I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there."
Reese Witherspoon
"I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there."
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"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
Elizabeth Bowen
"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
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"I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through."
Owen Hart
"I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through."
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"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life."
Steve Ballmer
"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life."
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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."
Walt Whitman
"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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"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."
George Steiner
"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."
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"I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher."
Stephen Malkmus
"I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher."
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"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."
Elbert Hubbard
"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."
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"Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution."
Jay Leno
"Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution."
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"I was thinking... that this isn't casual for me."
Katie Reus
"I was thinking... that this isn't casual for me."
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"You will be able to live as your authentic self when you find that infinite source of energy and that mind, bright and shining like the sun. Then you won't need to become anyone other than yourself. You won't need to depend on externals for your health and happiness, and you won't need to look outside yourself to find passion and hope for life."
Ilchi Lee
"You will be able to live as your authentic self when you find that infinite source of energy and that mind, bright and shining like the sun. Then you won't need to become anyone other than yourself. You won't need to depend on externals for your health and happiness, and you won't need to look outside yourself to find passion and hope for life."
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
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"Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel."
Sandra Cisneros
"Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel."
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