Quotes with life-form

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  • Marquis de Sade For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Cliff Fadiman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
    Lecture at the University of Maryland (March 2005)
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Laura Swenson For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Marguerite Duras For that's what a woman, a mother wants to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Capper For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • KäThe Kollwitz For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
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  • Bob Dylan For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Brad Feld For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Lawrence Durrell For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Butch Otter For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.
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  • Hillary Clinton Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Ida P. Rolf Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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