Quotes with life-saving

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  • John Banville Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
    Source: De zee (2008) 98
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Conrad Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Forsyth Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Brendan Myers Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Bill Frist Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Hardy Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Alain de Botton Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Frost Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Aristotle Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bernard Crick Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
    Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 15
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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