Quotes with life-form

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  • Carl von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Lord George Byron The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Agatha Christie The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • C. J. Mahaney The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • J. Clare The present is the funeral of the past, and man the living sepulchre of life.
    J. Clare
     
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  • Arthur Middleton The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Anthony Holden The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Upton Sinclair The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Barry Cornwall The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Arthur Koestler The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Kenneth Hare The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
    Kenneth Hare
    Canadian scientist and naturalist (1919 - 2002)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Alan Cohen The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Maharishi Mahesh Yogi The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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