S. I. Hayakawa Quotes
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.
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Live fast, die young.
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
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Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.
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We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it
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The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
