Quotes with life-form

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  • John Updike Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Benny Green Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Mortimer J. Adler Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Beau Willimon Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Barbara Boxer Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Allan Bloom Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Napoleon Hill Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • John Updike Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Umberto Eco Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Alan Watts Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Paul Tillich Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • John Galsworthy Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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