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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
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As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
– Stanley Kubrick
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
– Milan Kundera
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The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.
– Roger Kahn
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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
– Dean Kamen
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Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.
– Stefan Kanfer
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Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
– Stefan Kanfer
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You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
– Constantine Karamanlis
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A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.
– Islom Karimov
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I'm happy I've been all my life with my nation, was respected and honored by my nation, could be useful and help my people.
– Islom Karimov
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My biggest wish is to meet with ordinary and common people, to visit their families, that face current difficulties, to talk with fathers and mothers in the families, with veterans who experienced grief and happiness, to meet with youth who are making their first steps in life.
– Islom Karimov
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When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
– Islom Karimov
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Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
– Lawrence Kasdan
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If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
– John Kasich
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You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.
– Irene C. Kassorla
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I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
– Charlie Kaufman
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I never told a joke in my life.
– Andy Kaufman
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It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
– Bob Keeshan
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My moms have taught me to be open to difference and live life honestly, even when it is scary.
– Sol Kelley-Jones
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Being in a place like the Royal Ballet School and part of an environment where there is so much discipline, where everyone works so hard, it just completely occupies your life. You literally live it and breath it every single day; it becomes who you are. And that, I think, is very good preparation for really anything you do in life.
– Will Kemp
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It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
– Elizabeth Kenny
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Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.
– Ramman Kenoun
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The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
– Eli Khamarov
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Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
– Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
– Aga Khan III
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
– Harmon Killebrew
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Corruption will now cease to be a way of life in Kenya.
– Mwai Kinaki
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The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
– T. Starr King
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Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.
– Dexter Scott King
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Life at best is bittersweet.
– Jack Kirby
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The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
– Grayson Kirk
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He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and tragic aspects of American lower-class life.
– Lincoln Kirstein
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
– Eartha Kitt
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The life and legacy of Ronald Reagan so shifted the paradigm of the American Presidency and the character of our nation that it becomes easy to overlook some of the smaller, more personal changes he brought to his office.
– John Kline
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Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary condition.
– Bill Knapp
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My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
– Alexandra Kosteniuk
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I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.
– Thomas Kretschmann
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My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
– Thomas Kretschmann
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Sometimes I love acting but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.
– Kristin Kreuk
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Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
– Kris Kristofferson
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Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth;Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust;Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace;Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
– Satish Kumar
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The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
– Paul Kurtz
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
– Rabbi Harold Kushner
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The man stands between life and death. The man thinks... The fish is mute. expressionless. The fish doesn't think, because the fish knows everything. The fish knows everything.
– Emir Kusturica
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I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as written by Dostoyevsky and heavily edited by John Updike.
– Madeleine L'Engle
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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
– Madeleine L'Engle
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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
– Madeleine L'Engle
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
– Madeleine L'Engle
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
– Charles Lamb
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
– Charles Lamb
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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
– Ann Landers
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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
– Ann Landers
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If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
– Ann Landers
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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
– Ann Landers
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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
– Ann Landers
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
– Walter Savage Landor
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
– Walter Savage Landor
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.
– Walter Savage Landor
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I judged my mother much too harshly for her dating life. Being her only child, I wanted her completely to myself.
– Diane Lane
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Life's more amusing than we thought.
– Andrew Lang
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
– Dorothea Lange
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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
– Philip Larkin
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
– Doug Larson
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Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
– Doug Larson
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I am also an Emmy winning actress. Except that I gotta tell ya, it was for comedy and I've been practicing for most of my life because every job I've ever had they'd always say the same thing, 'Hey Lauper, what are ya, some kind of comedienne?' and who knew?
– Cyndi Lauper
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Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.
– Frank Lautenberg
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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.
– Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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Nobody's ever challenged me and tapped into what I can do. I ain't played a villain which I believe I can do and do real well. There hasn't been any director who has been able to challenge me to go there. At this point in my life I've done a lot of things from stand-up to my own television show for five years to successful comedy shows, and concert films.
– Martin Lawrence
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Our homes were very decorative, full of pattern, like inexpensive throw rugs. It must have had some influence, all this color and everything. Because we were so poor the people used this as a means of brightening their life. I used to do bright patterns after these throw rugs; I got ideas from them, the arabesques, the movement and so on.
– Jacob Lawrence
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Design is the term we use to describe both the process and the result of giving tangible form to human ideas. Design doesn't just contribute to the quality of life; design, in many ways, now constitutes the quality of life.
– Peter Lawrence
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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
– Stephen B. Leacock
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My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
– Denis Leary
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
– Fran Lebowitz
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
– Fran Lebowitz
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If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
– Bruce Lee
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As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
– Harper Lee
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My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
– General Robert E. Lee
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Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
– Peggy Lee
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A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
– Brandon Lee
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Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
– Brandon Lee
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Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
– Brandon Lee
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They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.
– Anna Lee
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
– Tom Lehrer
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I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life.
– Mike Leigh
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There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
– Mike Leigh
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