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  • Albert J. Nock Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
    ― Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bernard Berenson Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
    ― Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Alexander Herzen Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
    ― Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Life in abundance comes only through great love.
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Billy Boyd Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.
    ― Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Don Piatt Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
    ― Don Piatt
     
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  • Tom Stoppard Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
    ― Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay Life is a great and noble game between the citizen and the government.
    ― Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Danny Kaye Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
    ― Danny Kaye
    American actor, singer and comedian (1911 - 1987)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.
    ― Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
    ― Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Matthew McConaughey Life is a series of commas, not periods.
    ― Matthew McConaughey
    American actor, director, producer, writer, and co-teacher (1969 - )
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  • John Burroughs Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
    ― John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Gilda Radner Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
    ― Gilda Radner
     
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
    ― Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Carolina Herrera Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
    ― Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Sir Humphry Davy Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
    ― Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.
    ― Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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