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• Who am I? I'm a survivor. I'm a woman with tremendous inner resources and resilience. I care about people. I believe in 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,' and I live by that. I am becoming authentic, and that's important to me. I have surpassed both my parents in terms of emotional stability, happiness and well-being. And I'm a lucky woman. I've deserved my luck.

  Jane Fonda

  Believe, Emotional, People

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• About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It's a big responsibility.

  George Wald

  Life, Responsibility, Science

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• We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

  William Temple

  Love, Atheist, Names

  William Temple (1965). “Daily readings”

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• A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ, and prostrate ourselves in humble adoration at His feet, and cry out: "Rabboni! Rabboni!" Then shall we set our hearts, lifted into a new atmosphere, on things above, and reach an actual higher life. We shall know more of what it is to live by Christ, in Christ, for Christ, and with Christ, till we reach the marvelous light around the throne in glory.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Easter, Heart, Humble

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• The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Sacrifice, Principles, Complacency

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.440, Bantam Classics

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• Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

  Abram Joseph Ryan

  Life, Art, Years

  Abram Joseph Ryan (1973). “Selected poems of Father Ryan”

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• When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

  Horace Dyer

  Teenager, Kids, Power

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• All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

  Ronald Knox

  Loyalty, Thinking, Men

  Ronald Knox (2010). “In Soft Garments: Classic Catholic Apologetics”, p.105, Ignatius Press

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• I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

  Tea Leoni

  Jogging, Hills, Walking

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

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• I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became stronger until it found the freedom of flight and was able to soar to great heights and fly great distance without any effort. I heard the words: Faith comes with practice. Live by faith until it becomes rocklike unshakable, and find the true freedom of the spirit.

  Eileen Caddy

  Spiritual, Distance, Practice

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• Live by faith and not by fear.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Inspirational, Spiritual

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• You cannot live by feelings and emotions; you have to live by your intuition and consciousness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Bhajans, Feelings

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• If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream, Vegetables, Vision

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• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  W. T. Purkiser

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

  James Baker

  Agendas, Fellows

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• Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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• People cannot live by lending money to one another.

  John Ruskin

  Money, People, Lending

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• When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Photography, Sea, Weather

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• Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Silence, Grace, Wilderness

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• A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By associating together for public discussion, citizens learn the skills necessary for the health of a democratic public; listening persuading, arguing, compromising, and seeking common ground. When these skills are nurtured within the institutions of a democratic public, citizens educate themselves in order to make informed political decisions.

  Kevin Mattson

  Order, Skills, Issues

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• Man does not live by GNP alone.

  Paul Samuelson

  Men, Doe, Economics

  Paul Anthony Samuelson, William Samuelson (1980). “Economics”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Advancement, World

  "Beatings, Protests, Arrests Mark 60th Annual Human Rights Day". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2009.

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• Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
  By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
  While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
  By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Weed, Men, Garden

  1911 'The Glory of the Garden'.

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• People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.

  Allen Drury

  People, Pretense

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• Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Judging, Catholic, Church

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