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"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
Chanakya
"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
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"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
Ingrid Bergman
"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
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"The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father."
Peter Jennings
"The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father."
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"I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle."
Naguib Mahfouz
"I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle."
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"I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them."
Nicole Kidman
"I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them."
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"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."
Joseph Conrad
"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."
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"I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen."
Sherilyn Fenn
"I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen."
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"The quality of life is more important than life itself."
Alexis Carrel
"The quality of life is more important than life itself."
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"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
Clifton Paul Fadiman
"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
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"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
Thorstein Veblen
"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
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"Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment."
Albert J. Nock
"Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment."
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"I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered."
M. Night Shyamalan
"I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered."
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"Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life."
Margot Kidder
"Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life."
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"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
Joseph Conrad
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
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"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."
Hans Bender
"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."
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"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
Ella Maillart
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
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"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol."
Penn Jillette
"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol."
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"I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me."
Kenny Loggins
"I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me."
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"Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path."
Abu Bakr
"Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path."
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"Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together."
Graham Greene
"Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together."
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"Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning."
Robin Hobb
"Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning."
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"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
William Hazlitt
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
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"Things change and friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody."
Stephen Chbosky
"Things change and friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody."
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"I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have."
Alex Chilton
"I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have."
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"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
Morris West
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
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"We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."
Jim Lehrer
"We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."
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"Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself."
Cordell Hull
"Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself."
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"It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it."
Khaled Hosseini
"It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it."
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
William James
"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
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"I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences."
Sonia Sotomayor
"I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences."
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"We are all, right now, living the life we choose."
Peter McWilliams
"We are all, right now, living the life we choose."
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"It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe."
David Foster Wallace
"It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe."
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"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."
Raoul Vaneigem
"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."
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"Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling."
Claude Pepper
"Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling."
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"But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples". The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."
Lemony Snicket
"But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples". The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."
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"Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life."
Eddie Slovik
"Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life."
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"My act has always reflected what's going on in my life."
Kathy Griffin
"My act has always reflected what's going on in my life."
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"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."
Conor Oberst
"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."
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"Layer by layer art strips life bare."
Robert Musil
"Layer by layer art strips life bare."
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"In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature."
Eraldo Banovac
"In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature."
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"I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things."
Robert Plant
"I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things."
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"The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you."
Dom DeLuise
"The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you."
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"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world."
Josiah Royce
"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world."
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"Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we're all dying " nay, we're all dead " and it is up to us to be our own self-necromancers to find some form of life and spirit to reanimate the corpse of a life spent wanting."
A.J. Darkholme
"Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we're all dying " nay, we're all dead " and it is up to us to be our own self-necromancers to find some form of life and spirit to reanimate the corpse of a life spent wanting."
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"If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about."
Tiger Woods
"If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about."
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"Don't starve an instinct with a lie on, Never hit or deceive a wounded lion. He heals faster than you can imagine And hurts even more when in famine."
Ana Claudia Antunes
"Don't starve an instinct with a lie on, Never hit or deceive a wounded lion. He heals faster than you can imagine And hurts even more when in famine."
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"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
Robert B. Parker
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
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"I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs."
Cecelia Ahern
"I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs."
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"Life is short and progress is slow."
Gabriel Lippmann
"Life is short and progress is slow."
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"If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms."
Graham Nash
"If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms."
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