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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
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Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
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Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his ''death,'' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
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Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Source: Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House -
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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