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Life Quotes


"After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life."


"The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life."



"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."


"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."


"Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life."



"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."


"I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it."


"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."


"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"


"One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate."



"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."



"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."


"But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar."


"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth."


"In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained."


"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council."


"When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades.Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering.But the ones that are . . . happen again.So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself."


"A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow."


"I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it."



"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared."



"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."



"I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible."


"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."


"Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer."


"I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it."


"On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged."


"My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember."


"Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."


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