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• The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

  Randy Wayne White

  Anchors, Three, Four

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• Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

  Russell Kirk

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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• My team and I live by 3 words: RELATE. LOVE. INSPIRE

  Mike Posner

  Team, Inspire, Relate

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• The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Real, War, Believe

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• Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Jobs, People

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• You want to know about a certain period and what happened?-You go into this building and all of a sudden you are transported! You're not just shown pictures, not even 3-D pictures, not even movies, but suddenly you are transported live by a time machine to that very time, that very age and you see it happen, you watch it happen, you hear it happen, you feel it happen! Think of it! Not only the movies but the 'feelies'! You are there!

  David Berg

  Thinking, Age, Watches

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• We live by information, not by sight.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Knowledge, Sight, Information

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Italian, Men, Despair

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• Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

  Erich Fromm

  Helping Others, Men, People

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• A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Legends, Belief

  Pablo Picasso, Gary Tinterow, Susan Alyson Stein, Magdalena Dabrowski, Christel Hollevoet (2010). “Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, p.110, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Stars, Men, Self

  "The House by the Side of the Road" l. 7 (1898)

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• The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Pleasure, Pastime

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

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• We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.

  Carroll Quigley

  Hunting, Fishing, Two

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

  Pitbull

  Country, Usa, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

  Walt Disney

  Real, Giving, Imagination

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• I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Doe, Way

  "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office" (2001 - 2003), www.imdb.com.

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• Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Men, Light

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.47, Delphi Classics

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• ...You cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by faith. It either has to be by faith or by fear, by faith or by sight. Which way are you living? Faith takes out the anxiety It takes out the fear. Faith leans heavy on the Lord. It knows that the Bible is so and can be trusted and that we can live by it and all of our needs will be supplied.

  Lester Roloff

  Christian, Sight, Anxiety

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• I can no longer live by thinking.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, I Can

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• Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

  Criss Jami

  Beautiful, Mistake, Mean

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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• Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?

  Mark Salzman

  Eye, Differences, Darkness

  Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.153, Vintage

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• I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Gentleman, Rich, Poor

  1903 Mendoza and John Tanner. Man and Superman, act 3.

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• This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

  Anne Wilkes Tucker

  Book, Texas, Titles

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• Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Want, Break, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.58, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Two, Soul

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.90, Macmillan

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