Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Leon Trotsky Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bill Gates Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ogden Nash Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anna Quindlen Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Irving Life is serious but art is fun!
    The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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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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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
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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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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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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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  • Franz Kafka Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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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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  • Anita Brookner Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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