Quotes with real-life

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  • C. Wright Mills The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Carlos Gershenson The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on towards where one is heading.
    Original: El sentido de la vida depende no de donde se encuentre uno sino de adonde se dirija.
    Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Bruce Lee The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Corrie Ten Boom The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Michel de Certeau The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Charles Kingsley The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • William Bolitho The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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  • Elbert Hubbard The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Haniel Long The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Albert Einstein The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Buddy DeSylva The moon belongs to everyone;
    The best things in life are free.
    The stars belong to everyone;
    They gleam there for you and me.
    Song: The Best Things in Life are Free
    Buddy DeSylva
    American songwriter and film producer (1895 - 1950)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • E. M. Forster The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bryan Fuller The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Jean Paul The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Cate Blanchett The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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