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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
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There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.
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There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
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There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
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There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
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