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Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.
– Meister Eckhart
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
– Meister Eckhart
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice.
– Meister Eckhart
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
– Umberto Eco
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Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
– Sir Arthur Eddington
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Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.
– Sir Arthur Eddington
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A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
– Mary Baker Eddy
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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
– Mary Baker Eddy
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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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Service is what life is all about.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
– Thomas A. Edison
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I have made this, the most serious decision of my life, only upon the single thought of what would, in the end, be best for all.
– King Edward VIII
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I believe that when someone crosses over, regardless how we choose to define them (negative, positive) they are met by other friends, relatives, energies, help them understand the life and lessons they learned, the experiences they have shared with others and the feelings they've shared with others.
– John Edward
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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
– Charles Edwards
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I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.
– John Edwards
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
– Jonathan Edwards
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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory - horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene - and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
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My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
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So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
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Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.
– Robert. L. Ehrlich
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My administration is serious about providing the tools needed to help our most vulnerable children grow up safe and succeed in life.
– Robert. L. Ehrlich
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From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.
– Adolf Eichmann
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Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.
– Adolf Eichmann
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
– Albert Einstein
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Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
– Albert Einstein
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
– Albert Einstein
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How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
– Albert Einstein
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
– Albert Einstein
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I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
– Albert Einstein
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Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.
– Albert Einstein
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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
– Albert Einstein
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.
– Albert Einstein
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
– Albert Einstein
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
– Albert Einstein
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
– Albert Einstein
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Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
– Albert Einstein
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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The United States pledges its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to finding the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death but consecrated to his life.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.
– Will Eisner
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I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
– Will Eisner
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I was watching an HBO special the other night on real-life maximum-security-prison guys. I glanced up, and my poster was in quite a few cells. I was screaming 'Oh, no!'
– Carmen Electra
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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
– George Eliot
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
– George Eliot
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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
– George Eliot
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
– George Eliot
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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
– George Eliot
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
– George Eliot
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
– George Eliot
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
– George Eliot
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
– George Eliot
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
– T. S. Eliot
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
– T. S. Eliot
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
– T. S. Eliot
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We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright.
– T. S. Eliot
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
– T. S. Eliot
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
– Elizabeth II
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As someone who craves the fetal position, I empathize with this sentiment. I'm just so glad I took the risk so early on in life.
– Kim Elizabeth
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Birth. That's when I started penning my soul. Seriously, there was no transition. Only the natural process, unfolding and growth of my evolution. Everything I do in life is one hundred percent heartfelt at the onset... or onslaught, as the case may be.
– Kim Elizabeth
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I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.
– Kim Elizabeth
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I think my writing was innate. Being so painfully shy and introverted as a child, as well as an extreme thinker with a hyperactive imagination, it seems befitting. It became such a powerful passion early on in life.
– Kim Elizabeth
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Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
– Kim Elizabeth
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Roaming through the jungle of oohs and ahs, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
– Duke Ellington
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
– Henry Ellis
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
– Henry Ellis
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
– Henry Ellis
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
– Henry Ellis
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
– Henry Ellis
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
– Henry Ellis
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. . . . A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
– Henry Ellis
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The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
– Henry Ellis
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I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.
– Cary Elwes
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I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.
– Cary Elwes
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
– Michael Ende
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Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
– Michael Ende
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There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.
– Jim England
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
– Epicurus
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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
– Epicurus
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
– Epicurus
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason -you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
– Euripides
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No one is happy all his life long.
– Euripides
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
– Euripides
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Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours.
– Stephen Evans
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I'm not a Sundance guy either. I've never had applause lasting over two minutes in my life but we had a 17-minute standing ovation.
– Robert Evans
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Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
– Chris Evert
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