Life Quotes
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In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.
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I want more out of life than I've gotten.
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The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
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I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.
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It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.
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Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.
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If you have accepted Christ, your sins have been washed away, and you have been born again into a new life through faith in the God-Man, Jesus Christ, who came to rescue this world.
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Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
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We have a track record of setting ambitious sustainability goals, and going after them. In the end, there is only one planet, and we all want to live on it, and we want to be able to do so with a good quality of life. That requires us to hit our sustainability goals.
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Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life.
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Increasingly, politics is not about 'who gets what, when, how' but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about 'the right to life'...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.
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One disgust, then another - to the point of losing the use of speech and even of the mind...The greatest exploit of my life is to be still alive.
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Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?
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It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
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Living such an opaque life has forced me never to take transparency, openness, and honesty for granted.
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If you learn to condition yourself you can change anything you want in your life.
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It doesn't have a life of its own. You guys can write about it. But it's been weird.
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Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.
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I remember that we are all young, and I feel youngness in me, that I can keep trying. You can try a hundred things in your life, and if nothing in those hundred makes you satisfied, you can still go on trying.
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When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice...
