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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
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The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
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There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
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