Quotes with life-form

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• The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

  ― Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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• The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

  ― Calvin Trillin
  American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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• The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.

  ― Buzz Osborne
  American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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• The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

  ― William Saroyan
  Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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• The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

  ― Roland Barthes
  French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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• The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

  ― Samuel Smiles
  Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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• The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

  ― George Harrison
  English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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• The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

  ― George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

  ― Phillips Brooks
  American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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• The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

  ― William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

  ― Bob Moawad
   
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• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  ― Carl Lewis
  American athlete (1961 - )
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• The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

  ― Barbara Corcoran
  American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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• The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

  ― Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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• The best path through life is the highway.

  ― Henri-Frédéric Amiel
  Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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• The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

  ― William Wordsworth
  English poet (1770 - 1850)
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• The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

  ― Sir William Temple
  British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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• The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

  ― Jeremy Taylor
  British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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• The best thing in life aren't things.

  ― John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

  ― Dorothy Day
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• preservatives
• difficulties
• unremembered
• responsible
• themselves
• everything

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