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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.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
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Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
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Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives - to give, and give, and give.
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Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
The New York Times , 1 December 1975 -
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.
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