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  • Margaret Mead Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Ransom Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Paul Gauguin Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Philip Roth Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sandburg Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Trinidad Hunt Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.
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  • Aldous Huxley Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • James Baldwin Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Leo Buscaglia Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • C. Neil Strait Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • W. H. Auden Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ovid Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Billy Collins Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Paul De Man Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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