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Life Quotes
"We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing."
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"How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?"
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"When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends."
Life,
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"In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound."
Life,
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"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life."
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"It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself."
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"Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."
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"I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life."
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"To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life."
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"So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman."
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"Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life."
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"Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."
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"I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music."
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"Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do."
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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
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"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
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"I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography."
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
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"She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful."
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"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
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"What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all."
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"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
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"Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself."
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