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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
– Adrienne Rich
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The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.
– Ron Ben-Israel
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.
– Orson Scott Card
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The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
– Sean Lennon
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The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.
– John Legend
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The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
– Steven Seagal
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
– Arthur C. Brooks
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The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
– Allan Houston
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
– Paul Theroux
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The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
– Mark Steyn
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The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
– Francesca Annis
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The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
– David Baldacci
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The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
– Woodrow Wilson
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The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
– Rush Limbaugh
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The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
– Alexandra Fuller
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The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
– Stephen Hawking
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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
– Herman Hesse
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The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
– Edward Everett Hale
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
– E. M. Forster
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The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
– David O. Selznick
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
– Bear Grylls
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
– Honore de Balzac
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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
– Gilbert Murray
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The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
– Queen Elizabeth II
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
– Marilyn vos Savant
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The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
– Christopher Lasch
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
– Randall Terry
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The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
– Candace Bushnell
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The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
– Neal Boortz
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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
– Aleister Crowley
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The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
– George H. Mead
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
– Sir Philip Sidney
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The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
– Gustav Mahler
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
– The Dalai Lama
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
– John McEnroe
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
– Talcott Parsons
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The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
– Christopher Monckton
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
– Damien Hirst
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The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
– Giacomo Casanova
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
– Celine Dion
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
– Elbert Hubbard
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
– Samuel Johnson
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The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
– E. W. Howe
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
– Albert Schweitzer
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The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
– Ray Bradbury
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
– Lord Byron
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
– George Bernard Shaw
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
– Malcolm Gladwell
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The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
– Tim Berners-Lee
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
– Ernest Hemingway
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
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The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
– Helen Hayes
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
– Thomas Jefferson
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
– Florence Scovel Shinn
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
– Galina Vishnevskaya
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.
– Julie Burchill
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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
– William Graham Sumner
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The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
– Hillary Clinton
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The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
– Paul Stanley
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
– Christopher Lasch
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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
– Seamus Heaney
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The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.
– David Axelrod
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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
– Dee Dee Myers
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
– Sally Ride
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
– Samuel Smiles
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The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
– Fritz Todt
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The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
– Dennis Prager
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The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
– John Nelson Darby
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
– Socrates
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The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.
– Paul Gascoigne
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
– Plato
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The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
– Lydia M. Child
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
– Larry J. Sabato
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The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
– Jesse Ventura
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
– Harry Browne
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The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
– Ray Romano
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The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.
– Robin Roberts
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The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.
– Scott Stapp
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The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
– Christopher Hitchens
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
– Thomas Jefferson
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
– Hermann Hesse
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
– Taylor Swift
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The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
– Bianca Jagger
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
– Edgar Allan Poe
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The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
– Stephen Covey
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
– E. O. Wilson
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The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
– Bobby Orr
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The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
– Ethan Hawke
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The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.
– Andrew Shue
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The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.
– Gene Simmons
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The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
– Oprah Winfrey
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The best things in life are silly.
– Scott Adams
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