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• I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Boxing, Goes On

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

  Julia Ward Howe

  Tea, Age, Sugar

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• Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Gains, Pieces

  "I Can See Clearly Now". Interview with Reid Tracy, www.aquarianonline.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Life's a party. Invite yourself.

  Gary Johnson

  Life, Party, Invites

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• Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Change, Dance

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• My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Sex, Rope, Shooting

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• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Years, Year End, Political

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “The Writer and the World: Essays”, p.490, Vintage

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• Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

  Tom Hanks

  Movie, Book, Numbers

  "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

  Paracelsus

  Inspirational, Life, Feelings

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• When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like a run-on sentence, you never pause. You're always grabbing something. You're eating in front of the television. You're out grazing with your friends, and you're learning and digesting the values of the fast-food culture. And that's what I really believe is destroying this world. We've been indoctrinated from early childhood that more is better.

  Alice Waters

  Believe, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.salon.com

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• If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

  Steven Pinker

  Views, People, Literature

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• A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?

  Niki Lauda

  People, Risk, Unnecessary

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

  William Barclay

  Use, Individual Talent, Lost

  William Barclay (2014). “Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B”, p.88, Saint Andrew Press

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• Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Teacher, School, Soul

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 11, 2017

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• Life is like a roller coaster- it has its ups and downs but in the end you have smiles and giggles because you know...you did it.

  Julia Serano

  Life, Roller Coaster, Coasters

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• An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

  John C. Reilly

  School, Actors, Firsts

  "John C. Reilly's carnal insticts". Interview with Craig Hubert, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.

  Anthony Swofford

  Responsibility, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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• My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

  Yann Martel

  Art, Ambition, Skulls

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Party, Winning, Love Is

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• Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

  Agatha Christie

  Order, Doe, Emotion

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

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• Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game.

  Jay Electronica

  Kissing, Games, Cake

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• Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

  Romano Guardini

  Running, Religious, Oil

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• Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Boxing, Life Is

  "On Boxing". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

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• It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.

  Pope Francis

  Soccer, Fall, Land

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