Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Carroll Quigley On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Richard Nixon Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Billy Connolly Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bojana Novakovic One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me.
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  • Henry Miller One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Bernard Malamud One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
    Dubins Lives p. 27.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Anish Kapoor One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Robert Bresson One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Henry James One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Blaise Pascal One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Merlin Olsen One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
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