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Life Quotes
"I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism."
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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."
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"Things change and friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody."
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"But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well."
Life,
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"One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public."
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"Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn't SETTLE for it."
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"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture."
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"While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit."
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"Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts."
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"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
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"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"
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"I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for."
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"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
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"I was thinking... that this isn't casual for me."
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"Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind?"
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"It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses."
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"I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life."
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"The minutiae of our lives! Telephone calls, errands, appointments. None of these is of the slightest significance to others and but fleetingly to us yet they constitute such a portion of our lives, it might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events."
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"There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd."
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"I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago."
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"But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess."
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"I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance."
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"There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes... He felt that it would take all time, more than he could ever spare, to glue these strange cumbersome pictures into the scrap-book of his life."
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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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"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken."
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"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."
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"Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them."
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"Life is only a flicker of melted ice."
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"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."
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"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
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"Don't worry if you don't accomplish everything in this life. Fortunately, death overcomes every thing-even the very thing that tried to kill us."
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"The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans."
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