Quotes with life-imprisonment

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  • Menander of Athens Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Harvey Fierstein Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
    Harvey Fierstein
    American actor, writer and singer (1954 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Boris Johnson Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Asa Gray Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Ralph Gerard No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Robert Lynd No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many things so inevitably interesting.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ronald Reagan No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • José Saramago No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Ernest Renan No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Ellen Glasgow No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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