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  • Richard Nixon Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Anais Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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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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  • 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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  • Henry Miller Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Fred A. Allen Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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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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  • 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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  • William Somerset Maugham Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • John Gay Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Ben Hecht Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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