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"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
Robert Sheckley
"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
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"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."
Chuck Close
"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."
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"But this is life on earth, you can't have everything."
William Goldman
"But this is life on earth, you can't have everything."
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"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous."
Keith Richards
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous."
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"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
Jane Addams
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
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"I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there."
Story Musgrave
"I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there."
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"I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense."
Oded Fehr
"I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense."
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"I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are."
Ron Wyden
"I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are."
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"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."
Amy Tan
"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."
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"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."
Charles Lamb
"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
Arthur Ashe
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
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"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!"
Patrick Henry
"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!"
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"To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back."
Vincent Schiavelli
"To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back."
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"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."
Charles Sturt
"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."
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"Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was."
Jeffrey Skilling
"Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was."
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"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
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"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
John Stuart Mill
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
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"I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life."
LeAnn Rimes
"I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life."
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"What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes."
Julian Assange
"What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes."
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"Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people."
Matt Groening
"Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people."
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"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."
Charles Dudley Warner
"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."
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"My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life."
Mac Thornberry
"My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life."
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"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life."
Bill Moyers
"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life."
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"Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right " no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse."
J.R. Ward
"Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right " no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse."
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"My career is an open book, but my life is not."
Barry Bonds
"My career is an open book, but my life is not."
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"Where there's life, there's hope."
Terence
"Where there's life, there's hope."
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"The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion."
George Gillespie
"The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion."
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"Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life."
Debasish Mridha
"Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life."
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"To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees."
Munshi Premchand
"To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees."
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"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar
"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."
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"I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it."
Douglas Wilson
"I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it."
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"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
William Christopher Handy
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
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"For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music."
Amy Grant
"For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music."
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"I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy."
Mercedes McCambridge
"I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy."
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"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics."
Seth Lloyd
"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics."
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"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."
Erma Bombeck
"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."
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"In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."
Tony Visconti
"In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."
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"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do."
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"I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free."
LaToya Jackson
"I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free."
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"As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England."
Gwyneth Paltrow
"As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England."
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"I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life."
Willie Stargell
"I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life."
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"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."
James Russell Lowell
"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."
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"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to."
Rowan Atkinson
"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to."
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"Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story."
Terry Goodkind
"Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story."
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"I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over."
John Walker Lindh
"I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over."
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"She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's."
Colleen McCullough
"She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's."
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"As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work."
Jennifer Lawrence
"As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work."
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"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"
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"Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile."
Gerald Massey
"Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile."
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"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."
Georg Solti
"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."
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