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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
– Lord Byron
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
– Lord Byron
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
– Lord Byron
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
– Lord Byron
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What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
– Lord Byron
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
– Lord Byron
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When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
– Lord Byron
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After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
– Michelangelo
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I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
– Michelangelo
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I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
– Michelangelo
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
– Michelangelo
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
– Sai Baba
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
– Sai Baba
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
– Sai Baba
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
– Sai Baba
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As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings - that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.
– Bacchylides
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I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.
– Amitabh Bachchan
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It is necessary to examine, in a detailed way, the contemporary theory of Evil, the ideology of human rights, the concept of democracy. It is necessary to show that nothing there leads in the direction of the real emancipation of humanity. It is necessary to reconstruct rights, in everyday life as in politics, of Truth and of the Good. Our ability to once again have real ideas and real projects depends on it.
– Alain Badiou
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I do not interfere with your personal life domestically, and internationally, our military forces should not be interfering with foreign governments.
– Michael Badnarik
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I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.
– Michael Badnarik
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Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
– Byrd Baggett
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
– Josephine Baker
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.
– Anita Baker
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Life seems to be a never-ending series of survivals, doesn't it?
– Carroll Baker
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After all, I had never typed the word butthole before in my life. It isn't a word that comes up much in business correspondence.
– Nicholson Baker
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They are both great fans and they have been for years and years. It is a bit more of a social event there and here it is almost kind of like life and death. The fans are really really into it and terribly disappointed when you lose. They are very compassionate about the team and they are very knowledgeable fans here.
– Dusty Baker
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
– Mikhail A. Bakunin
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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
– Christian Bale
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
– Anna Letitia Barbauld
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When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
– Adrienne Barbeau
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
– William Barclay
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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
– William Barclay
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
– William Barclay
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
– William Barclay
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When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
– William Barclay
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When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
– William Barclay
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Lastly, though I affirm that after a man hath arrived to such a condition in which a man may not sin, he yet may sin; I will nevertheless not deny but there may be a state attainable in this life, in which to do righteousness may become so natural to the regenerate soul, that in the stability of this condition they can not sin.
– Robert Barclay
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I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.
– Clive Barker
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I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
– Christiaan N. Barnard
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The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
– Christiaan N. Barnard
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The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
– Clive Barnes
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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
– Julian Barnes
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The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.
– Julian Barnes
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
– P. T. Barnum
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Old age is the verdict of life.
– Amelia E. Barr
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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
– Amelia E. Barr
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Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
– Shari R. Barr
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The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
– Chuck Barris
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
– Karl Barth
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There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something out.
– Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians.
– Traian Basescu
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
– Frederic Bastiat
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O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!
– Katharine Lee Bates
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O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
– Lewis J. Bates
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
– Mary Catherine Bateson
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A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
– Phyllis Battelle
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
– Anne Baxter
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See into life, don't just look at it.
– Anne Baxter
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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
– Stephen Bayley
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Obedience, judgment, witness... these are the signposts to our salvation, in all the perplexities and busyness of our life.
– Stephen Bayne
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I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.
– Emmanuelle Beart
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Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
– Melody Beattie
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A month of days, a year of months, 20 years of months in the treadmill, is the life that slays everything worthy of the name of life.
– Roy Bedicheck
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To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
– Jim Beggs
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This huge life-changing moment of going from zero to ninety in two seconds!
– Catherine Bell
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For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation. For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life.
– Clive Bell
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The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
– Henry Glassford Bell
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
– Guy Bellamy
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To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
– Ludwig Bemelmans
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The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
– Ruth Benedict
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It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in its history.
– Pope Benedict XVI
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
– Stephen Vincent Benet
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Life is a crisis - so what!
– Malcolm Bradbury
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
– Charles Bradlaugh
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As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
– Benjamin Bratt
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I'm on a real roll. Since I left Law and Order, I've made six films. The whole reason I left Law and Order was I wanted to have a life. That show is a huge commitment.
– Benjamin Bratt
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The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
– Benjamin Bratt
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When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.
– Benjamin Bratt
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
– Fernand Braudel
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Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: 'Never hurt anybody.'
– Denis Breeze
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Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies... that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
– T. Casey Brennan
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I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
– George Brett
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A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
– Benjamin H. Brewster
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
– Harry Bridges
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All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
– Vera Brittain
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Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
– Avery Brooks
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
– Heywood Broun
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
– Heywood Broun
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When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.
– Rosellen Brown
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
– Harry Browne
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The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
– Avery Brundage
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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
– Charles Buck
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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
– Julie Burchill
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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
– Ken Burns
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In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
– James MacGregor Burns
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
– Edgar Rice Burroghs
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Control your life through insanity.
– Cliff Burton
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A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
– Vannevar Bush
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One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
– Edward B. Butler
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