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There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
Michel de Montaigne
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The pleasure of the first day's hunting cannot be compared to finding a fine group of fossil bones, which tell their story of former times with almost a living tongue.
Charles Darwin
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
Theodore Roosevelt
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One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.
Winston Churchill
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Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
J. R. R. Tolkien
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What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
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Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
Bertrand Russell
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He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Albert Einstein
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Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.
Bertrand Russell
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Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power.
The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.
Charles Dickens
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The primary aim of modern warfare... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.
George Orwell
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If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.
Henry David Thoreau
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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In October 1866 I broke out as a lecturer, and from that day to this I have always been able to gain my living without doing any work; for the writing of books and magazine matter was always play, not work. I enjoyed it; it was merely billiards to me.
Mark Twain
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Florence Nightingale
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Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens.... Superabundant existence wells in my heart.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I believe that our Tibetan ability to combine spiritual qualities with a realistic and practical attitude enables us to make a special contribution, in however modest a way. This is my hope and prayer.
In conclusion, let me share with you a short prayer which gives me great inspiration and determination:
For as long as space endures,
And for as long as living beings remain,
Until then may I, too, abide
To dispel the misery of the world.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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"Imagination," therefore, is nothing but "decaying sense;" and is found in men, and many other living creatures, as well sleeping, as waking.
Thomas Hobbes
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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