Quotes with life-threatening

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  • Asa Gray We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Bernard Malamud We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
    The Natural p. 152.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sigmund Freud We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a ''dark continent'' for psychology.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Bertrand Russell We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Anton Chekhov We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Orison Swett Marden We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
    Orison Swett Marden
    American inspirational author (1848 - 1924)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Brooke Shields We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Martha Graham We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Winston Churchill We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Norman Macewan we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ida R. Wylie We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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  • E. M. Forster We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Maxwell Maltz We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Anne Lamott We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Ann Landers We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Eric Hoffer We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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