Quotes about life
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach, "Illusions"

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Where there's smoke, there's fire.

American saying

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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Mark Twain

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Henry Rollins

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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Finley Peter Dunne

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It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Children make your life important.

Erma Bombeck

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

T. S. Eliot

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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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Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.

Terri Guillemets

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