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"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."

"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."

Morrie Schwartz, American Educator

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"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."

Jules Verne, French Author

Life, Lonely, Man, Sea

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"Life is too short not to experiment."

"Life is too short not to experiment."

Jamelia, English Musician

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"I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life."

"I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life."

Diana Ross, American Actress

Life, People, Heart, Songs

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"I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat."

"I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat."

Sarah Chalke, Canadian Actress

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"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."

"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."

Edith Wharton, American Author

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"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason."

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason."

Edward Coke, English Businessman

Life, Law, Nothing, Perfection

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"Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City."

"Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City."

Melissa Joan Hart, American Actress

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"The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life."

"The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life."

Neve Campbell, Canadian Actress

Life, Time, First

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"I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna."

"I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna."

Anna Friel, English Actress

Life, Character, Day, Play

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"I am a happy man. I've had a good life."

"I am a happy man. I've had a good life."

John Lee Hooker, American Musician

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"You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive."

"You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Life, Fighting, Months, Risk

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"Life is one long process of getting tired."

"Life is one long process of getting tired."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

Nora Ephron, American Author

Life, Rest, Want

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"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."

Tony Robbins, American Author

Life, Opportunity, Privilege, Responsibility

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"The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life."

"The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life."

Betty Buckley, American Actress

Life, Feminism, Identity, Sense

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"The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian."

"The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian."

William Gurnall, English Author

Life, Christian, Duty

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"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life."

"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life."

Jean Paul, German Author

Life, Absence, May, Will

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"No, I had a back injury early on in my life."

"No, I had a back injury early on in my life."

Merle Haggard, American Musician

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"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."

"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."

Richard Rosen, American Author

Life, America, Communication

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"In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance."

"In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance."

Tiger Woods, American Athlete

Life, Balance, Importance, Spiritual

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"So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship."

"So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship."

George J. Mitchell, American Politician

Life, Sports, Inferiority, Brothers

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"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."

Wilma Rudolph, American Athlete

Life, Time, Winning, Defeat

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"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."

"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."

Joan of Arc, French Celebrity

Life, Sacrifice, Belief, Dying

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"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."

"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."

Norman Mailer, American Novelist

Life, Men, Honor

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"I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life."

"I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life."

Ike Turner, American Musician

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"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."

"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

Life, Balance, Being

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"Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development."

"Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development."

Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

Life, Development, Christianity, Years

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"Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race."

"Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race."

Jose Bergamin, Spanish Writer

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"Treat your life like something to be sculpted."

"Treat your life like something to be sculpted."

Larry Niven, American Writer

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"Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body."

"Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body."

Malcolm Boyd, American Clergyman

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"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."

"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

Life, Success, Attention, Day

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"And sex is definitely part of college life."

"And sex is definitely part of college life."

Scott Speedman, English Actor

Life, Sex, College

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"It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for."

"It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for."

Debra Messing, American Actress

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"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."

"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."

Walter Pater, English Critic

Life, Poetry, Fact, Sense

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"I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood."

"I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood."

Jack Prelutsky, American Poet

Life, Childhood

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"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."

"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."

Laurence Housman, English Playwright

Life, Character, Pursuit, Sun

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"I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do."

"I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do."

Martina McBride, American Musician

Life, God, Career, World

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"There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything."

"There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything."

Rhonda Byrne, Australian Author

Life, Joy, Suffering, Earth, Duality

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"Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again."

"Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again."

Robert Brault, American Author

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"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

Jean Ingelow, English Poet

Life, Beauty, Idea, Hunger

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"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."

"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."

Aleister Crowley, English Critic

Life, Faces, Facts

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"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."

"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."

Alex Grey, American Artist

Life, Love, Nature, Fate

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"I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like."

"I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like."

Linda McCartney, American Photographer

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"I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop."

"I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop."

Ruth St. Denis, American Dancer

Life, Magic, Stars

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"The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life."

"The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life."

Steve Buyer, American Politician

Life, Men, Women, Caring

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"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."

"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."

Audrey Hepburn, Belgian Actress

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"Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that."

"Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that."

Jackie Collins, British Author

Life, First, Writing

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"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."

"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."

Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Poet

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"I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life."

"I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life."

Will Estes, American Actor

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