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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Jane Austen Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Burns Life's but a day at most.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Franz Kafka Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Boris Pasternak Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
    From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
    But the hunters are gaining ground;
    I've nowhere else to run.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Buddha Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Carlisle Floyd Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Robert Burton Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Caroline Lawrence Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carly Fiorina Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Sylvester Stallone Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
    Sylvester Stallone
    American actor and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Bill Burr Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bob Rae Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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