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  • Eugene O'Neill Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Jonathan Swift May you live all the days of your life.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • André Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Szasz Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Aristotle Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Orwell Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Charles F. Kettering My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Epictetus Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Booker T. Washington No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henry David Thoreau On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Agatha Christie One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Albert Einstein Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • L'Chiam Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
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  • Thomas Jefferson Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Susan Sontag Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Ben Stein Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Smiles Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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