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  • Bern Williams Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
    Bern Williams
    English philosopher
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  • Lou Holtz Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • James Russell Lowell Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lewis Mumford Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Sydney Smith Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • George Eliot Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • James Baldwin Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Audre Lorde Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Life isn't long enough for love and art.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • C. Neil Strait Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Bruce Lee Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
    Source: Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Maya Angelou Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ''I'm with you kid. Let's go.''
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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