Quotes 3641 till 3660 of 4928.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
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The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
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The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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