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Life Quotes
"Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level."
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"Evil comes often to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it. I say this, who am Mathurin Kerbouchard, a homeless wanderer upon the earth's far roads. I speak as one who has known hunger and feast, poverty and riches, the glory of the sword and the humility of the defenseless. Hunger inspires no talent, and carried too far, it deadens the faculties and destroys initiative..."
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"I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep. Just ever so quietly I reached over and laid my hand on his shoulder.He said, 'I love you too, Hannah."He didn't last long after that. Death had become his friend. They say that people, if they want to, can let themselves slip away when the time comes. I think that is what Nathan did. He was not false or greedy. When the time came to go, he went."
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"Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground."
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"I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life."
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"Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effusiveness, even when the path was suddenly irradiated at some half-way point by daybeams rich as hers. But her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."
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"The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one."
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"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life."
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"I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty."
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"The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate."
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"Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life."
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"I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh."
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"I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life."
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"You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker."
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"Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen."
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"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."
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"Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!"
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"That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you."
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"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."
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"Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive."
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"All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."
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"You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them."
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"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."
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"No person can claim to be anything more or anything less than his or her individual assimilation of a lifelong symposium of inimitable physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual occurrences. Simply put, we each place our own individualized stamp upon the meaning of life. How we live, how we struggle, and how we die reflects what life means to each of us. We are all students of life, we are a product of what we pay attention to, what we observe, and experience, and what subjects arrest our minds."
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"In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds."
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"Life is three hours journey; childhood, adulthood & old-hood; filled with inspiration, perspiration and desperation."
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"Common sense is calculation applied to life."
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"I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life."
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"The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!"
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"I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life."
Life,
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"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"
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