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We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.
– Michael Steele
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We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– Todd Akin
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We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
– Novak Djokovic
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We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
– David Amram
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We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
– Colin Powell
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We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
– Bob Ehrlich
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
– Carl Jung
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.
– Charles Schumer
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We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
– Ernest Istook
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
– A. J. Muste
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
– David Sarnoff
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We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
– LeVar Burton
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.
– Judd Gregg
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We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.
– Anne Hathaway
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We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.
– Sheena Easton
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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
– Franz Kafka
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We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
– Tom Baker
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
– John Cage
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We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
– Joan D. Vinge
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We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
– Bill Hicks
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
– Zach Galifianakis
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We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
– Jack Bruce
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
– Louisa May Alcott
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Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.
– Tibor Benedek
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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
– Margaret Sanger
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War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
– Henry Rollins
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Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
– Neal Boortz
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Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
– Emmitt Smith
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Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
– Jane Smiley
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Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
– Martin Scorsese
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
– John Cusack
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
– Mark Strand
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Use plants to bring life.
– Douglas Wilson
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Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
– Edward Said
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
– B. R. Ambedkar
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Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.
– Andrew Shue
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Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
– Michelle Pfeiffer
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
– Dan Savage
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Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.
– Cheryl Ladd
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Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.
– Holly Madison
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Truth is life's most precious commodity.
– Edwin Louis Cole
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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
– Khalil Gibran
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Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
– Curt Schilling
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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
– Stephen Covey
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
– Baltasar Gracian
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True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
– Alexander Smith
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Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
– Christopher McCandless
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Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
– Tom Cochrane
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
– Francesca Annis
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
– John Betjeman
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Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Jim Ryun
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
– Karen Armstrong
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
– Kevyn Aucoin
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To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
– Ralph Boston
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To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
– Peter R. Grant
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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
– Reba McEntire
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To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
– George H. Mead
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To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
– George Crabbe
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
– Wallace Stevens
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To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
– Luigi Barzini
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To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
– Christina Ricci
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To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'
– Anna Kendrick
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To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
– Mike Mills
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To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.
– Joss Stone
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
– James Buchan
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To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
– Anna Deavere Smith
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
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To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
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To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.
– Neil Peart
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
– Bertrand Russell
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
– William James
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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
– Walter Pater
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
– Maria Sharapova
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To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
– Peter Schuyler
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To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
– Sir Thomas More
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
– Marlene Dietrich
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To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.
– Giada De Laurentiis
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
– Anais Nin
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Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
– Steve Martin
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
– Warren Farrell
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Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
– Mike Krzyzewski
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Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
– Will Smith
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Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
– Michael Shermer
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Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
– Trent Reznor
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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
– Sophocles
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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
– William Law
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This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
– Jim Capaldi
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This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.
– Corey Hart
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This life is a process of learning.
– Lauryn Hill
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
– Charles Baudelaire
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This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.
– Lindsay Lohan
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This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.
– Joshua Chamberlain
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
– Olga Korbut
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