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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
– Phillip Brooks
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
– Phillip Brooks
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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
– Phillip Brooks
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
– Phillip Brooks
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The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
– Andrew Brown
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
– John Mason Brown
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
– Les Brown
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
– Rita Mae Brown
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
– Rita Mae Brown
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The artist has one function - to affirm and glorify life.
– W. Edward Brown
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious-that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
– Dan Brown
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
– Dan Brown
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
– Dan Brown
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It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
– Thomas Edward Brown
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After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, Maybe life isn't for everyone.
– Larry Brown
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You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
– Larry Brown
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And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.
– Lew Brown
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One thing I really fear is living too long and becoming one of these vegetables and a burden to everybody and to yourself. And so I've had such a rich life, such fabulous opportunities, that I feel, Okay, take it as it comes.
– J. Carter Brown
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I consider the probability that there is other intelligent life in the universe overwhelming. And we will ultimately find it.
– George E. Brown, Jr.
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Human cloning is the deliberate creation of a human life for utilitarian purposes. That life is created simply for research or for the benefit of another. Any time in history when we have subjected one class of human beings to enslavement by another class has been wrong.
– Sam Brownback
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
– Sir Thomas Browne
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
– Sir Thomas Browne
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
– Robert Browning
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I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
– Robert Browning
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Love is energy of life.
– Robert Browning
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
– Robert Browning
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His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.
– Anatole Broyard
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The midnight snack of a life in its 70s.
– Anatole Broyard
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The tension between yes and no, between I can and I cannot, makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
– Anatole Broyard
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I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
– Craig Bruce
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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
– Martin Buber
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
– Pearl S. Buck
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
– Pearl S. Buck
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
– Pearl S. Buck
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
– Pearl S. Buck
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I'm not going to say anything nasty about golf. I have a standing offer - and I've told this to Bill and Mike - that if they ever do a charity golf thing again, I will get knickers and a tweed cap and, never having touched a golf club in my life, I will take mushrooms and do a full eighteen holes. As long as is televised.
– Peter Buck
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He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
– Buddha
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
– Buddha
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
– Buddha
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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
– Buddha
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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
– Buddha
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
– Warren Buffett
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Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
– Jimmy Buffett
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
– Charles Bukowski
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.
– Jim Bunning
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Be yourself, take control of your life.
– Emma Bunton
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
– Luis Bunuel
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
– Warren E. Burger
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
– Warren E. Burger
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I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
– Anthony Burgess
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
– Anthony Burgess
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I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
– James Lee Burke
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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
– Leo Burnett
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Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
– Conrad Burns
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
– John Burroughs
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
– John Burroughs
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Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
– Leo Buscaglia
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
– Leo Buscaglia
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
– Leo Buscaglia
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
– Gary Busey
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
– Barbara Bush
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America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
– George W. Bush
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America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.
– George W. Bush
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States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
– George W. Bush
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This way of life is worth defending.
– George W. Bush
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When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.
– George W. Bush
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
– Samuel Butler
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
– Samuel Butler
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
– Samuel Butler
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
– Samuel Butler
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
– Samuel Butler
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
– Samuel Butler
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
– Samuel Butler
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
– Samuel Butler
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
– Samuel Butler
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There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.
– Samuel Butler
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
– Samuel Butler
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I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain would never come back - my daddy and Jesus Christ. I don't wait for them anymore. My dad, anyway. And at least with Jesus I didn't spend all that time thinking he was gone because of something I did.
– Brett Butler
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Instead my life has been like being mashed and mashed through a wine press until finally there will be nothing left but the desire to live by divine will, knowing what I'm really supposed to do and doing it.
– Brett Butler
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I like the dress-up part. In real life, I'm into sweats and never like that, but I do like to get dressed up - like most girls.
– Amanda Bynes
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We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.
– Amanda Bynes
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
– Lord Byron
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
– Lord Byron
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
– Lord Byron
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
– Lord Byron
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
– Lord Byron
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.
– Lord Byron
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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
– Lord Byron
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
– Lord Byron
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
– Lord Byron
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