Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 5007.
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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
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The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
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The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
Dialogues in Limbo (1925) -
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
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