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If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all
life
and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. the more this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.
Piet Mondrian
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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of
life
.
Pope Paul VI
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I volunteered for a number of reasons. One of these, quite frankly, was that I thought this was a chance for immortality. Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my
life
for.
Scott Carpenter
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Our job is to bring the dead facts to
life
.
Bill Bernbach
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To revolt is a natural tendency of
life
. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for
life
; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Of the 1960s
Raoul Vaneigem
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The truth is, I'm proud of the
life
I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
Carly Fiorina
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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in
life
cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager
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I alone, as the sharer of their way of
life
, presented a replica of childhood.
Neal Cassady
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to
life
in our imaginations, he passes the test.
Stephen Vizinczey
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I don't really believe in evil at all. I mean, I don't believe in God. I certainly don't, therefore, believe in some sort of supernatural or trans-historical force that somehow organizes
life
on dark or black principles. I think there are only people behaving, and sometimes behaving monstrously.
Ian McEwan
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Three things in human
life
are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
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In the stress of modern
life
, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity which whispers in our ears that failures are not faults!
Agnes Repplier
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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my
life
- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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... it is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your
life
.
Randall Jarrell
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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my
life
neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
Steven Pressfield
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The success or failure of a
life
, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
Alice James
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Life
is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does—that's what makes it so boring.
Edward Gorey
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Achieve success in any area of
life
by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles J. Givens
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Life
-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
bell hooks
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My faith is the grand drama of my
life
. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.
Olivier Messiaen
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I HAVE HAD A HAPPY
LIFE
AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL!
Christopher McCandless
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I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended
life
. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
Edward Said
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Religion is not a department of
life
; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts
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Life
— a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
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