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"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
Aleister Crowley
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
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"We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response."
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"Life should be embraced like a lover."
Rose Tremain
"Life should be embraced like a lover."
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"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life."
Mickey Mantle
"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life."
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"The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life."
Al Franken
"The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life."
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"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."
Cornelia Otis Skinner
"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."
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"I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent."
Charles Evers
"I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent."
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"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
A. C. Benson
"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
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"One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well."
John Frankenheimer
"One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well."
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"I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can."
Benjamin Tucker
"I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can."
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"No one's a virgin, life screws us all!"
A. J. McLean
"No one's a virgin, life screws us all!"
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"These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!"
John Dillinger
"These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!"
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"How different her life would be if Orrin hadn't contacted her in July. She wouldn't be embroiled in kidnapping, espionage, and murder."
Donna Grant
"How different her life would be if Orrin hadn't contacted her in July. She wouldn't be embroiled in kidnapping, espionage, and murder."
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
Charles Kingsley
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
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"I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life."
Lawrence Taylor
"I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life."
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"I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter."
Camille Claudel
"I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter."
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"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity."
Jonathan Miller
"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity."
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"They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will."
Dennis Wilson
"They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will."
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"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
William Faulkner
"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
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"Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life."
Thomas Hearns
"Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life."
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"Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin."
Melissa Bean
"Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin."
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"I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life."
Seth Green
"I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life."
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"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
Anatole Broyard
"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
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"I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences."
Deborah Cox
"I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences."
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"The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money."
Marc Wallice
"The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money."
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"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."
Michael Landon
"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."
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"I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping."
Lorna Luft
"I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping."
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"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."
Catherine Drinker Bowen
"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."
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"Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle."
Barry Sanders
"Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle."
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"I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life."
Leigh Steinberg
"I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life."
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"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be."
Jeremy Irons
"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be."
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"Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy."
Peter O'Toole
"Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy."
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"Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path."
Jean Anouilh
"Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path."
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"This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal."
Joshua Chamberlain
"This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal."
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"Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices."
Harrison Ford
"Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices."
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"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."
William Butler Yeats
"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."
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"Life is the farce which everyone has to perform."
Arthur Rimbaud
"Life is the farce which everyone has to perform."
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"Life is a means of extracting fiction."
Robert Stone
"Life is a means of extracting fiction."
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"Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I."
Eydie Gorme
"Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I."
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"I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication."
Donal Logue
"I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication."
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"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
Fay Weldon
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
Clive Barker
"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
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"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
Henri Bergson
"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
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"I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now."
Wavy Gravy
"I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now."
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"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
Elizabeth Moon
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
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"Control your life through insanity."
Cliff Burton
"Control your life through insanity."
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"To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life."
David McCullough
"To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life."
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"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
Joseph Barbera
"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
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"I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work."
Douglass North
"I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work."
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"All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident."
Titus Livius
"All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident."
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