Quotes with life-time

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  • John Lennon The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Alfred Marshall The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
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  • Arthur Middleton The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Anthony Holden The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Bill Clinton The problem with ideology is, if you've got an ideology, you've already got your mind made up. You know all the answers and that makes evidence irrelevant and arguments a waste of time. You tend to govern by assertion and attacks.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Karl Marx The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Anthony Storr The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
    Anthony Storr
    English psychiatrist and author
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  • Barry Cornwall The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Arthur Koestler The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Dean Inge The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
    Dean Inge
     
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  • Kenneth Hare The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
    Kenneth Hare
    Canadian scientist and naturalist (1919 - 2002)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Alan Cohen The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Maharishi Mahesh Yogi The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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