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• Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.

  Victoria Finlay

  Dust, Blood, Space

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• But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

  J. M. Ledgard

  Moving, Thinking, Doors

  J M Ledgard (2011). “Submergence”, p.33, Random House

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• You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sweet, Children, Believe

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that's the deal. If we don't know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side -- and but awaits our command.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Facts, Sides, Tricks

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 27, 2017

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• All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

  Craig Stone

  Phones, Film, All The Best

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• Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Future, Water Of Life, Events

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• Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.

  Clarence Darrow

  Class, Poverty, Causes

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• life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

  Alan Alda

  Existence, Meaningless

  Commencement Speech at Connecticut College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

  Euripides

  Glorious

  Iphigenia Aulidensis, l.1252 (translated by W S Merwin and G E Dimock Jr, 1978).

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• It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Beautiful, Passion, Unity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.183, Classic Books Company

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• Life is too short for non-WOW projects.

  Tom Peters

  Life Is Too Short, Wow, Projects

  "The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!". Book by Tom Peters, December 15, 1999.

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• La chose la plus importante a'   toute la vie est le choix du me  tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

  Blaise Pascal

  Things In Life, Important, Chance

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• All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.

  George Steiner

  Art, Criticism, Phrases

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Two, Drawing

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Years, Two, Directors

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough.

  Evan Thomas

  Men, Years, Political

  "George H.W. Bush". "The Presidents", www.pbs.org. May 5, 2008.

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• What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

  Courteney Cox

  Thinking, Creative, Challenges

  "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.

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• I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  People, Body, Able

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

  Tom Waits

  People, Facts, Made

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

  Anton Chekhov

  Thinking, Maturity, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others”, p.1929, e-artnow

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• Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Avant Garde, Firsts, Bad Times

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, May 14, 1889.

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• I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

  Antoni Tapies

  Worry, Anxiety, Feelings

  "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

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• Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

  Luc Tuymans

  Art, Wall, Politics

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• Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity to do so. So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.

  Liza Mundy

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

  "Why Men Are Attracted to High-Earning Women" by Liza Mundy, ideas.time.com. March 15, 2012.

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