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I saw, for the first time in my life, two or three young white women smoking tobacco in clay pipes. From their manner it was evidently a well-formed habit, and one which they did not suspect there was occasion for them to practice clandestinely, or be ashamed of.
– Frederick Law Olmsted
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
– Robert Orben
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A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
– Suze Orman
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In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
– Suze Orman
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In the next year or so, my signature will appear on $60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life-the strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.
– Katherine D. Ortega
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I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.
– David Ortiz
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
– George Orwell
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
– George Orwell
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
– George Orwell
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One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
– George Orwell
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
– Ozzy Osbourne
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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
– Sir William Osler
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
– Sir William Osler
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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
– Donny Osmond
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This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, I didn't do it, I didn't do it. And he's shot down. That's not the American way of life. A man is innocent until he's proved guilty.
– Marguerite Oswald
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
– Herbert Otto
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An evil life is a kind of death.
– Ovid
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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
– John Owen
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Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
– Bill Owens
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That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
– Buck Owens
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The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
– Buck Owens
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For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.
– John Oxenham
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
– Al Pacino
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I never got a job in my life that I asked for! But all my life better jobs have been given me than I dared ask for.
– Walter H. Page
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
– Camille Paglia
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I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
– Chuck Palahniuk
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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
– Chuck Palahniuk
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I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
– Michael Palin
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Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.
– Michael Palin
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One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
– Michael Palin
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Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.
– Robert Parker
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I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a character whose values and virtues I disdained.
– Robert Parker
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I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
– Robert Parker
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I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
– Robert Parker
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It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
– Robert Parker
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Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
– Robert Parker
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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
– Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
– C. Northcote Parkinson
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
– Blaise Pascal
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
– Boris Pasternak
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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
– Boris Pasternak
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
– Boris Pasternak
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
– Boris Pasternak
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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
– Boris Pasternak
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
– Boris Pasternak
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
– Louis Pasteur
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
– Alan Paton
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Live your life and forget your age.
– Jean Paul
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
– Pope John Paul II
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When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.
– Pope John Paul II
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
– Pope John Paul II
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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
– Pope Paul VI
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The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
– Pope Paul VI
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
– Pope Paul VI
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We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.
– Pope Paul VI
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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
– Pope Paul VI
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
– Cesare Pavese
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
– Cesare Pavese
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
– Cesare Pavese
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
– Cesare Pavese
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.
– Guy Pearce
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I have real dilemmas at times in trying to understand what I really think about the things that are in films and how people respond to them. I flip back and forth from going, It's a slice of life. This happens in life. A film is an artistic venture. It's expressing life, so why not?
– Guy Pearce
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Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living.
– John Pearson
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They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
– John Pearson
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Those which live in impiety, and depart in their iniquity, they which have here provoked the wrath of God, and goe hence with that wrath abiding on them, as they could create nothing to their relations but sorrow in their life, so must they necessarily increase it at their death.
– John Pearson
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Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
– John Pearson
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We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
– John Pearson
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What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us?
– John Pearson
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
– M. Scott Peck
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
– M. Scott Peck
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Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
– Gregory Peck
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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
– Charles Peguy
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
– William Penn
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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
– Jack Penn
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
– Walker Percy
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
– Walker Percy
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
– Walker Percy
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But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
– Sonny Perdue
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One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.
– Sonny Perdue
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My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
– Evita Peron
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I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.
– Matthew Perry
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There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
– Matthew Perry
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Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
– Matthew Perry
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The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.
– Rick Perry
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I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that when I get myself organized, and am in one place long enough, I will have so much energy of mind and belief that I will be able to accomplish infinitely more. My thoughts will be larger and clearer, and with a renewal of life.
– Anne Perry
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I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
– Anne Perry
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
– Fernando Pessoa
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I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
– William Petersen
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Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
– William Petersen
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Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
– Roger Tory Peterson
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For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
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I'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job for the rest of my life, but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know? I'm just so tired of being afraid.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
– William Lyon Phelps
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
– William Lyon Phelps
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I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.
– Michael Phelps
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You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
– Emo Philips
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
– Wendell Phillips
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