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Life Quotes
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
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"Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
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"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich."
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"In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life."
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"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."
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"The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families."
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"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
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"Even poison has an expiry date."
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"Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character."
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"Some years ago I was invited to be on a television talk show with one of the most famous personalities in America. Afterward she took me aside and told of the emptiness in her life. “My beauty is gone,” she said, “I am getting old, I'm living on alcohol, and I have nothing to live for."
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"Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins."
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"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!"
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"Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness."
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"An honourable man is fair even to his enemies, a dishonourable man is unfair even to his friends!"
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"Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from."
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"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
Life,
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"It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid-and morally so. The game becomes an extended metaphor of character defect. Every error he makes is so profoundly, so irritatingly typical of himself, instantly familiar, like a signature, like a tissue scar or some deformation in a private place."
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"The wind is blowing. Don't bend if you want to please him."
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"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
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"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."
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"I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives."
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"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself."
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"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life."
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"I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction."
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"I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life."
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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
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"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."
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"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."
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