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  • Maya Angelou I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Bruce Davison I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • William Hazlitt I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Donald Trump I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Donald Trump I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Carlos Santana If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Carl Levin It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Ward Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Albert Schweitzer Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Simone Weil Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Andre Breton Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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