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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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The object of art is to give life a shape.
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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
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The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The only prudence in life is concentration.
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
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The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
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The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
Source: Foundation: The History of England (2011) 47
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