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  • Washington Irving A woman's life is a history of the affections.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Anthony Trollope A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Carol Shields A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Freya Stark Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Camille Paglia Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 94
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Albert Camus Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Charles J. Givens Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ayn Rand Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Hesiod Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Marlon Brando Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.
    Marlon Brando: The Only Contender, Gary Carey (1985) Ch 13
    Marlon Brando
    American actor, film director, and activist (1924 - 2004)
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  • Bette Davis Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Napoleon Hill Action is the real measure of intelligence.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Donald Sinden Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
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  • Cate Blanchett Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Clinton Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Advertising signs that con you into thinking you are the one
    That can do what's never been done,
    That can win what's never been won
    Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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