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  • Alma Guillermoprieto Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bobby Farrelly Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Howe What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Bertolt Brecht What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
    Jungle of Cities
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Lord George Byron What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Barbara de Angelis What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • John Masefield What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Anne Brontë What are their thoughts to you or me, so long as we are satisfied with ourselves — and each other.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Calvin Trillin What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bishop What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Nelson Mandela What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
    Speech 18 may 2002
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • George Eliot What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Campbell What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Louise Erdrich What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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