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  • Jean de la Bruyère Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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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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  • 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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  • Woody Allen Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
    The Rules of Attraction (2010) 64
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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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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  • 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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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
    Het leven van Pi p.18
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Edward Young Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
    Vivian Grey (1826) VIII, ch. 4
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Robert Burton Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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