Quotes with life-saving

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  • Buddy Guy Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Wallace Stevens Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anita Diamant My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Andre Breton No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Andre Breton No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Elias Canetti One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Helen Keller Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Alfred Adler The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne The logic of the heart is usually better than the logic of the head, and the consistency of sympathy is superior as rule for life to the consistency of the intellect.
    Source: Youth and life (1913)
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Greg Anderson The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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