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  • Socrates Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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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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  • John Tyndall Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
    Het leven van Pi p.18
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Balthazar Getty Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Hailey Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Horace Mann Lost - Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
    A Beautiful Thought… we clip from an exchange paper Universalist Union (16 March 1844)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Robert Hayden Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Louis Aragon Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Erich Fromm Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • A. E. Housman Lovers lying two and two
    Ask not whom they sleep beside,
    And the bridegroom all night through
    Never turns him to the bride.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 12, st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bertrand Russell Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
    The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Brad Sherman Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Woody Allen Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Billy Graham Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
    A Life God Rewards Devotional (2002)
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Plato Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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