Quotes with life-form

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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Iris Murdoch A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Seneca A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Georges Bataille A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • George Jean Nathan A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Robin George Collingwood A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Muhammad Ali A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • John Keats A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Benjamin Haydon All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • David Cronenberg All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Robert Frost Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Sagan Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Toni Morrison Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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