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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living'. The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

Tertullian

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

James Altucher

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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Malcolm Forbes

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One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Meister Eckhart

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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Desiderius Erasmus

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain

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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Ogden Nash

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There are two good things in life — freedom of thought and freedom of action.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life — a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ambrose Bierce

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I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.

Jennifer Hyman

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I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Kinky Friedman

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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

Sophia Loren

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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Erich Fromm

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

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Life, whatever it was - light or heavy, joyful or sad - always be accompanied by well-aimed remarks about everything that happens in it. Wherefore, quotes about life have been, are and will be. Depending on their orientation, they can also lift your mood, and have thoughts, and contribute to making important decisions, and to have any different effect on someone who reads them.

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