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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
– G. K. Chesterton
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
– G. K. Chesterton
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
– G. K. Chesterton
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
– G. K. Chesterton
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Life itself is the proper binge.
– Julia Child
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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
– Jacques Chirac
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I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.
– Anna Chlumsky
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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
– Margaret Cho
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Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
– Margaret Cho
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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
– Deepak Chopra
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
– Agatha Christie
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The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
– Saint John Chrysostom
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Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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While there's life, there's hope.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Life inspires more dread than death-it is life which is the great unknown.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Life is nothing; death, everything. Yet there is nothing which is death, independent of life. It is precisely this absence of autonomous, distinct reality which makes death universal; it has no realm of its own, it is omnipresent, like everything which lacks identity, limit, and bearing: an indecent infinitude.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
– Emile M. Cioran
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
– Emile M. Cioran
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You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
– Emile M. Cioran
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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
– John Clare
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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
– Frank A. Clark
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In Alzheimer's disease the mind dies first: Names, dates, places-the interior scrapbook of an entire life-fade into mists of nonrecognition.
– Matt Clark
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Music is the soundtrack of your life.
– Dick Clark
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In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
– Alan Clark
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We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
– James Freeman Clarke
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If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
– John Cleese
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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
– John Cleese
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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
– Georges Clemenceau
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In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.
– Hillary Clinton
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I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
– George Clooney
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I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.
– George Clooney
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You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
– George Clooney
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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
– Chuck Close
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In Europe, there's a very different attitude towards art-you're sort of given your whole life to make your work, whereas here it's, what have you done lately.
– Chuck Close
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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
– Chuck Close
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What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
– Chuck Close
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Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
– Brian Clough
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I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
– Kurt Cobain
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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
– Ty Cobb
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I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
– Ty Cobb
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I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
– Tom Coburn
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My hope is that one day America will return to our historic standards which were to respect the life of the unborn.
– Tom Coburn
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The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.
– James Coburn
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I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
– Johnnie Cochran
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I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
– Johnnie Cochran
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
– Jean Cocteau
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
– Jean Cocteau
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Life is a horizontal fall.
– Jean Cocteau
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
– Leonard Cohen
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Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
– Alan Cohen
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
– Alan Cohen
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You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
– Alan Cohen
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
– Edward Coke
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
– Frank Moore Colby
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None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
– Thomas Cole
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I have more than four people on this planet in my life who see me for myself and forget that I've worked on network television. They forget I've worked in movies, and that I'm an actor. As long as I have four people who can do that, then there are others who are capable of doing that.
– Gary Coleman
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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
– Jeremy Collier
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It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
– Robert Collier
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The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
– Joan Collins
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Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
– John Churton Collins
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Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
– William Collins
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
– Confucius
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
– Confucius
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If we don't know life, how can we know death?
– Confucius
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
– Confucius
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
– Confucius
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
– William Congreve
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I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life, and actually it pays better than the movies. Well, it doesn't pay better than Tom Cruise in the movies. But it pays better than I get. I get bus fare compared to these guys.
– Billy Connolly
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
– Cyril Connolly
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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
– Cyril Connolly
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
– Cyril Connolly
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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
– Joseph Conrad
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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
– Joseph Conrad
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