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  • Mario Puzo Life is like a box of hand grenades, you never know what will blow you to kingdom come.
    The Last Don
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Jack London Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • David Gemmell Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
    Legend (2011)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • James Baldwin Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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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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  • Lynwood L. Giacomini Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up.
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  • Lord George Byron Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Ray Bradbury Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Pope Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Stephen Hawking Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Edward Everett Hale Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.
    Edward Everett Hale
    American author, historian, and Unitarian minister (0 - 1909)
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  • Brad Bird Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Bob Barr Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Joan Crawford Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
    Joan Crawford
    American basketball player (1904 - 1977)
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