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It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.
Charles Edward Merriam
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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
George R. R. Martin
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
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A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
José Martí
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.
June Jordan
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At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
Howard Thurman
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Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
José Martí
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
William Saroyan
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It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.
Edna Ferber
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Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Thomas Ken
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
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The only thing of weight that can be said against modern Honour is, that it is directly opposite to Religion. The one bids you bear Injuries with Patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
Bernard Mandeville
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Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Lawrence Clark Powell
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There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.
Ross Macdonald
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather
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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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Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
David Brainerd
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I love people. I love my family, my children … but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods
Live a longer life than men do,
Men a longer life than dogs do,
Dogs a longer life than love does.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman
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To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
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I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth — which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations — that mathematical ideas originate in empirics. But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is … governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas.
John von Neumann
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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
Konstantin Stanislavski
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