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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
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The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
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The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.
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The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
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