Quotes with life-saving

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  • Woodrow Wilson Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bernard Malamud Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • John Berger Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Lord George Byron Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Carly Fiorina Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • John Updike Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Benny Green Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Mortimer J. Adler Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Beau Willimon Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Boxer Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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