Quotes 3521 till 3540 of 5007.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
Julius Caesar 3, 2 -
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
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