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Small: Ones age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out o
"One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful"
Thomas Arnold, Educator
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Small: The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from moti
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist
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Small: Life is like a trumpet - if you dont put anything into it, you dont get anything out of it
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it"
William Christopher Handy, Musician
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Small: Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality.
"Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life"
Robert Lanza, Scientist
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Small: I thought to myself, theres a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probab
"I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being"
Gabriel Byrne, Actor
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Small: There are no regrets in life, just lessons
Jennifer Aniston
"There are no regrets in life, just lessons"
Jennifer Aniston, Actress
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Small: We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearabl
"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem"
Yasser Arafat, Leader
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Small: We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives
"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives"
Freeman Thomas, Designer
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Small: Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife,
Ann Patchett
"Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces"
Ann Patchett, Author
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Small: Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life
Jasper Johns
"Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life"
Jasper Johns, Artist
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Small: Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries
"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries"
John Lothrop Motley, Historian
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Small: Many Continentals think life is a game the English think cricket is a game
George Mikes
"Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game"
George Mikes, Writer
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Small: The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which encl
"The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right"
Georg Simmel, Sociologist
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Small: On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of tim
"On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself"
Georg Simmel, Sociologist
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Small: This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably cha
"This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists"
Donald Johanson, Scientist
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Small: Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you cant st
"Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life"
Aimee Mann, Musician
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Small: The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son
"The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son"
Judy Collins, Musician
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Small: I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life
"I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life"
Frank Leslie, Artist
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Small: There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country
"There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country"
Nick Lampson, Politician
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Small: Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging
"Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging"
Dar Williams, Musician
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Small: Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun"
Hilaire Belloc, Poet
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Small: When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while
"When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can"
Blair Underwood, Actor
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Small: I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country but positively I had not
"I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise"
Cole Younger, Criminal
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Small: Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggys experience in the 1960s. I exist in a worl
"Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene"
Elizabeth Moss, Actress
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Small: From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may
"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea"
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poet
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Small: I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government
"I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work"
Mitt Romney, Politician
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Small: The life of a repo man is always intense
"The life of a repo man is always intense"
Alex Cox, Director
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Small: I wouldnt know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it
"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it"
Marc Jacobs, Designer
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Small: It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is lifes parody, whereas death t
"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time"
Simone de Beauvoir, Writer
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Small: The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trif
"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles"
Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist
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Small: And I did wonder - because its now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when
"And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life"
Jeffrey Archer, Politician
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Small: Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself
Maxwell Maltz
"Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself"
Maxwell Maltz, Scientist
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Small: The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"
Frederick Douglass, Author
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Small: You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs
Heston Blumenthal
"You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs"
Heston Blumenthal, Chef
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Small: The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life"
Lucan, Poet
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Small: Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for li
"Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life"
Roger Tory Peterson, Environmentalist
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Small: I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another
"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another"
Amartya Sen, Philosopher
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Small: I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and
Tom Felton
"I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them"
Tom Felton, Actor
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Small: Art is my life and my life is art
Yoko Ono
"Art is my life and my life is art"
Yoko Ono, Artist
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Small: Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from s
"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose"
William Cowper, Poet
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