Quotes with living

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  • Henry David Thoreau I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Keir Hardie I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.
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  • Oscar Wilde If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • H. Ross Perot If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Russell Wayne Baker Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • Bruce Lee Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Sholem Aleichem No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
    Sholem Aleichem
    Yiddish author and playwright (1859 - 1916)
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  • Eugène Ionesco No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Bill Hader Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Albert Einstein Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Robert J. Mckain Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
    Robert J. Mckain
    American author of self-help books
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Stephen R. Covey The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Nelson Mandela There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Aristotle Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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