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Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
Bill Bernbach
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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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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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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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The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
James Otis
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Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach
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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
Neil Simon
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick
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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
Muriel Spark
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.
Henri Poincaré
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Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Augusto Roa Bastos
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A. J. Liebling
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In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
George Best
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When I am in my painting, I am not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a short of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Jackson Pollock
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Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
Germaine Greer
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.
Anthony Trollope
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
Anthony Bourdain
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However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
Frederick William Robertson
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead
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At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
Howard Thurman
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun
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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles
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Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Mary Oliver
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And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
Hart Crane
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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
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