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  • Alexis Carrel Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Rose Tremain Life should be embraced like a lover.
    The Swimming Pool Season (2011) 79
    Rose Tremain
    English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1943 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Douglas Adams Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Light gatherer. You fell from a star
    into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
    mirrored in you,
    and now you shine like a snowgirl,
    a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
    you squeal at and fly in.
    The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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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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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Billy Joel Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Khaled Hosseini Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Lynwood L. Giacomini Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up.
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  • Edward Hoagland Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Billy Casper Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Jean Paul Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Carlo Ratti Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Buzz Aldrin Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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