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  • Albert Maltz To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Confucius To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Wallace Stevens To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Jean Anouilh To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
    Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William James To spend life for something which outlasts it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • W. H. Auden To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Carl Lewis To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald To write it - three months, to conceive it - three minutes. To collect the data in it - all my life.
    Source: Zelf-interview over This Side of Paradise
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Takijiro Ohnishi Today in bloom, tomorrow as afallen petals, like a delicate flower, life is.
    Takijiro Ohnishi
    Japanese admiral (1891 - 1945)
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  • Dale Carnegie Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Billy Corgan Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long....
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Lewis Mumford Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Tom Hopkins Today, you have 100% of your life left.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Whorf Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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