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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
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The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
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The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.
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The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
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The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) , p. 20 -
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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