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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
Peter Abelard
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor — those great tools of thought — and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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I never had any hesitation or regrets in this sense. My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning
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While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
Mattie Stepanek
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Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
Shawn Johnson
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Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
Aga Khan III
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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Thomas Browne
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Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
Deborah Tannen
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Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
Lewis Mumford
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
Ariel Dorfman
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Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
Anne Roiphe
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Henry Miller
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Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned into advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
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Mistakes are a fact of life
It is the response to error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni
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There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
Ken Venturi
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
Angela Carter
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookner
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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