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  • George Bernard Shaw Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Stephen Hawking Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
    The New York Times (12 december 2004)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Oscar Wilde Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Emily Carr Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • George Burns Life's but a day at most.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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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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  • Lord George Byron Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Harold Sherman Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
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  • Victor Hugo Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Andrew Lang Life's more amusing than we thought.
    Andrew Lang
    Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic (1844 - 1912)
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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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  • Anthony Hopkins Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Marsha Sinetar Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
    Marsha Sinetar
    American writer
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  • Francis Bacon Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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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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  • Jonathan Raban Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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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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