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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 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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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
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The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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