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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Life well spent is long.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Our life is made by the death of others.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Real life in Paris, the waiting-for-a-bus kind of existence that goes on without ever crossing the tracks to the city's elegance and worldly ambitions, moves on its own, without manifestoes or injunctions to stop it.
– John Vinocur
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We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.
– Virgil
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
– David Viscott
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
– David Viscott
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When we're talking about the things that matter most in life - we're not Republicans, Democrats or Independents. We're all parents and grandparents, children, teachers and students. We're all Louisianians.
– David Vitter
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What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
– Paul A. Volcker
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Business is the salt of life.
– Voltaire
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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
– Voltaire
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My life is a struggle.
– Voltaire
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
– Voltaire
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
– Kurt Vonnegut
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Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.
– Claude Vorilhon
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If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
– Claude Vorilhon
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To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
– Claude Vorilhon
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All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
– Jane Wagner
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I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.
– Robert Wagner
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
– Denis Waitley
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All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
– Denis Waitley
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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
– Denis Waitley
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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
– Denis Waitley
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
– Denis Waitley
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
– Denis Waitley
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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
– Denis Waitley
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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
– Denis Waitley
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
– Denis Waitley
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
– Denis Waitley
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The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
– Denis Waitley
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The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
– Denis Waitley
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
– Denis Waitley
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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
– Denis Waitley
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
– Alice Walker
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I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.
– Paul Walker
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A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.
– Barbara Walters
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I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
– Bill Walton
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
– Bill Walton
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One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
– Zack Wamp
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
– Zack Wamp
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
– William Arthur Ward
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In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.
– William Arthur Ward
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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
– Charles Dudley Warner
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[I am] pro-choice with limitations, pro-life with exceptions.
– John Warner
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When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.
– Mark Warner
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
– Earl Warren
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
– Earl Warren
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
– Earl Warren
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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
– Earl Warren
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
– Earl Warren
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A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
– Robert Penn Warren
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
– Robert Penn Warren
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
– Robert Penn Warren
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
– Booker T. Washington
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
– George Washington
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Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
– Denzel Washington
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I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
– Muddy Waters
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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
– Bill Watterson
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
– Bill Watterson
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
– Bill Watterson
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Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
– John Wayne
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
– Simone Weil
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
– Simone Weil
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
– Simone Weil
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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
– Simone Weil
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
– Simone Weil
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
– Simone Weil
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
– Otto Weininger
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
– Fay Weldon
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
– Orson Welles
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I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
– Eudora Welty
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
– Eudora Welty
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
– Mae West
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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
– Morris West
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A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
– Rebecca West
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You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
– Jerry West
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
– Edith Wharton
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
– Edith Wharton
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
– E. B. White
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A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
– Minor White
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I hope young people will see how I changed my life and how it's up to them to make changes in their own lives to succeed.
– Barry White
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A gent I know whose life is superfluidity. Took a job in CBS Continuity. One night after too much Scotch paregoric, He turned in a script just too prehistoric. He was fired and said, as he read his doxology I thought they would like my Paley-ontology.
– Paul W. White
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It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.
– Pearl White
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
– Walt Whitman
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
– Elie Wiesel
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
– Elie Wiesel
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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
– Oscar Wilde
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
– Oscar Wilde
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
– Oscar Wilde
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
– Oscar Wilde
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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
– Oscar Wilde
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In married life three is company and two none.
– Oscar Wilde
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
– Oscar Wilde
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
– Oscar Wilde
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