Quotes with mid-life

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Edwin Markham We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Lewis Mumford We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Norman Cousins We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Walter Benjamin We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Sigmund Freud We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Abdul Kalam We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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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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