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  • Adam Smith Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Washington Irving Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Henry James Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Eileen Caddy Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Anne Sexton Live or die, but don't poison everything.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Ben Schwartz Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Brene Brown Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Carla Bley Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Bjork Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Agnes De Mille Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
    Agnes De Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Omar Khayyam Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Anais Nin Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Ben Gibbard Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bow Wow LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Bette Davis Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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