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  • Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Jim Rohn Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Jose Marti Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
    Jose Marti
    Cuban politician, journalist and poet (1853 - 1895)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Oriana Fallaci Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Babbitt Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Bliss Carman Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Matt Groening Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Judith Viorst Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994)
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Buffalo Bill Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ezra Pound Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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