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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Calvin Klein Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Morarji Desai Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
    Morarji Desai
     
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Virginia Woolf Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Brad Stone Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • William Adams Brown Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.
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  • Danny Kaye Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
    Danny Kaye
    American actor, singer and comedian (1911 - 1987)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
    Source: Het leven van Pi p.18
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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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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