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"Anything for a quiet life."

"Anything for a quiet life."

Thomas Middleton, English Poet

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"We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

"We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Life, Suffering

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"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

Rose Tremain, English Novelist

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"I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that."

"I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that."

Matt LeBlanc, American Actor

Life, People, Waiting

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"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Life, Men, Being, Quiet

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"My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is."

"My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is."

Shane Warne, Australian Athlete

Life, Thought, Play, Pretty

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"I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that."

"I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that."

Melanie Chisholm, English Musician

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"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."

"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."

Jenny Shipley, New Zealander Statesman

Life, Government, Decisions, Necessity

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"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs."

"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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"If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time."

"If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time."

Scotty McCreery, American Musician

Life, Time, Song

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"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."

James Allen, British Author

Life, People, Thoughts, Man

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"I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element."

"I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element."

Kenneth Branagh, Irish Actor

Life, Dream, Night, Supernatural

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"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

Carolyn Heilbrun, American Writer

Life, Intimacy, Risk

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"Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."

"Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."

Morris Raphael Cohen, Russian Philosopher

Life, Progress, Achievement, Adventure

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"Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life."

"Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life."

George Stephanopoulos, American Celebrity

Life, Politics, Time, Years

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"They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!"

"They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!"

Osho, Indian Spiritual Leader

Life, Action, Risk, Thought, Courage

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"You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them."

"You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them."

Lori Loughlin, American Actress

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"I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part."

"I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part."

O. J. Simpson, American Athlete

Life, Famous, Fight

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"You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of."

"You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of."

Constantine Karamanlis, Greek Leader

Life, Philosophy, Talk

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"I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me."

"I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me."

Patti LuPone, American Musician

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"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."

"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."

Christopher Hampton, British Playwright

Life, Belief, Being, Disappointments

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"Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life."

"Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life."

Dorothy Day, American Activist

Life, Party, Trying

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"Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life."

"Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life."

John Boehner, American Politician

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"I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day."

"I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day."

Frank Langella, American Actor

Life, Day, Dying, Will

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"Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work."

"Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work."

Jeff Foxworthy, American Comedian

Life, Love, Work, Money

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"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

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"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

Sarah Bernhardt, French Actress

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"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."

"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."

Democritus, Greek Philosopher

Life, Success, Battle, Children

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"Do not walk away from death because you came out of it."

"Do not walk away from death because you came out of it."

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Life, Death, Survival, Acceptance, Reflection

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"I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream."

"I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream."

Hilary Swank, American Actress

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"Change means the unknown."

"Change means the unknown."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Life, Change, Fear, Courage

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"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."

"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."

Jodie Foster, American Actress

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"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."

Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist

Life, Being, Children, College

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"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth."

"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth."

Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Author

Life, Today, Youth

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"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls."

"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls."

Bruce Barton, American Author

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"We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life."

"We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life."

Anthony Daniels, English Actor

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"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."

"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."

Robert M. Pirsig, American Philosopher

Life, Goal, Future

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"Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet."

"Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet."

Anthony Kiedis, American Musician

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"Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity."

"Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity."

Pope John XXIII, Italian Clergyman

Life, Integrity, Man, Right

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"It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone."

"It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone."

Simon Sinek, British Author

Life, Learning, Curiosity, Growth

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"My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer."

"My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer."

Rick Wakeman, British Musician

Life, Music, Will

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"God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life."

"God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life."

Josiah Royce, American Philosopher

Life, God, Harmony

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"Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile."

"Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile."

Edward Zwick, American Director

Life, Experience, Movies, Emotion

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"If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions."

"If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions."

Douglas Feith, American Public Servant

Life, Actions, Israel, Military

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"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life."

"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

Life, Power, Earth, Influence

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"A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?"

"A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?"

Walter Pater, English Critic

Life, May, Senses

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"For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it."

"For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it."

Michelle Pfeiffer, American Actress

Life, Control, Being, Famous

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"Life is too short to work so hard."

"Life is too short to work so hard."

Vivien Leigh, English Actress

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"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship."

"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship."

C. L. R. James, British Journalist

Life, Men, Women

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"My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer."

"My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer."

George Benson, American Musician

Life, Career, First, Guitar

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