Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Les Brown Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be 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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  • Louise Erdrich Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
    The Painted Drum (2005)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • John Ruskin Life without industr is guilt, and industry without art is brute lity.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Mark Twain Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Oscar Wilde Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Emily Carr Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Martin Luther King Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Marsha Sinetar Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
    Marsha Sinetar
    American writer
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  • Francis Bacon Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jonathan Raban Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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  • Alan Dundes Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Stephen Leacock Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Douglas Adams Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Letty Cottin Pogrebin Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
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  • Dwight L. Moody light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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