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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
– Charles Dickens
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
– Charles Dickens
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Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.
– Charles Dickens
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The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
– Charles Dickens
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
– Charles Dickens
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
– Charles Dickens
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
– Emily Dickinson
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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
– Emily Dickinson
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Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!
– Emily Dickinson
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If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
– Bruce Dickinson
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Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
– Bruce Dickinson
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Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
– Joan Didion
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Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
– Ani Difranco
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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
– Annie Dillard
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Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
– Isak Dinesen
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
– Isak Dinesen
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
– Walt Disney
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
– Walt Disney
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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
– Walt Disney
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I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
– Walt Disney
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
– Walt Disney
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
– E. L. Doctorow
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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
– John Donne
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There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
– Byron Dorgan
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
– William O. Douglas
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Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.
– Kirk Douglas
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There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
– Michael Douglas
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
– Frederick Douglass
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
– Jerry Doyle
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We were talking, we had a table read or something, he said, Jerry, how are you with horses? I said, I grew up with them all my life. He said, Oh, that's great! I said, Yeah, they all had cops on them.
– Jerry Doyle
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On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
– Henry Drummond
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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
– Henry Drummond
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
– Henry Drummond
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Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
– John Dryden
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
– John Dryden
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
– John Dryden
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus -- there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
– David Duchovny
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My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.
– Hilary Duff
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Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.
– David Duke
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I did picket one time, wore a swastika once in my life. I picketed William Kunstler at Tulane University and that's the only instance in my life that I ever did that.
– David Duke
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A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
– John Foster Dulles
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
– Alexandre Dumas
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People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
– Isadora Duncan
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
– Finley Peter Dunne
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You felt like an idiot sometimes, Dunst laughs. You just have to commit 110% and make it look as real as possible. The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
– Kirsten Dunst
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
– Will Durant
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It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
– Emile Durkheim
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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
– Lawrence Durrell
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
– Wayne Dyer
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
– Wayne Dyer
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
– Wayne Dyer
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
– Wayne Dyer
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
– Wayne Dyer
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
– Wayne Dyer
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At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
– Bob Dylan
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
– Freeman Dyson
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Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
– Freeman Dyson
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
– Freeman Dyson
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
– Freeman Dyson
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Can you imagine? Finding out that you're going to be on two series [Baywatch and Baywatch Nights] at one time? I said to myself, my life is never going to be the same again.
– Donna D'Errico
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Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.
– Bertha Damon
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Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
– James Darren
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When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
– Duffy Daugherty
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A really interesting life has embraced everything from the most magnificent exultation to the depths of tragedy. I would say that's tremendous experience. But I wouldn't say enjoyment is an accurate summary of it.
– Marcia Davenport
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Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!
– John Davidson
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The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.
– Paul Davies
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
– Leonardo DaVinci
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Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
– Elmer Davis
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This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.
– Clive Davis
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As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
– Artur Davis
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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
– Humphrey Davy
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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
– Guy Debord
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Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.
– Midge Decter
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I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.
– Sarah Louise Delany
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Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
– Sarah Louise Delany
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There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
– Don Juan DeMarco
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
– Daniel Dennett
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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
– Chauncey Depew
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I believe in the Law of everlasting struggle, which is the law of life, and in the duty of the best specimens of our race - the natural 'lite of mankind - to rule the earth, and evolve out of themselves a caste of supermen, a people 'like unto the Gods'.
– Savitri Devi
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They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
– Gardner Dickinson
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It's up to you to decide now, and what you choose to do about it will affect the rest of your life, and theirs. Enjoy your child as he is and make sure that he feels totally comfortable and safe and loved in his own home.
– Rosaleen Dickson
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Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
– Lillian Dickson
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The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.
– Rudolf Diesel
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Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!
– Don A. Dillman
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
– Ernest Dimnet
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If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say... the red is positive and the black is negative.
– Nick Dipaolo
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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen
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