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• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  John Ruskin

  Giving Up, Men, Titles

  1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

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• I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Cities, People

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• Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Journalism, Sometimes, Journalist

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• I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

  Taylor Swift

  Way, Feels

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• Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

  Johannes Tauler

  School, Humility, Men

  Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384

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• I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

  Tim Tebow

  Christian, Perfect, Get Better

  "Tim Tebow Discusses Faith and Football in the No Spin Zone". Interview with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. June 03, 2011.

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• I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

  Paul Walker

  Sports, Home, Bigs

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• I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

  Tiger Woods

  Different, Boundaries

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• I ran straight through the boundaries a married couple should live by.

  Tiger Woods

  Couple, Married, Boundaries

  "Tiger Woods announces divorce: 'Our marriage is irretrievably broken'" by Helen Pidd, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2010.

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• What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Hero, Differences

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• It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Atheist, Home, Broken

  FaceBook post by Thomas Pynchon from Nov 06, 2014

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• She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn

  Stanley Kunitz

  Heart, Dark, Break

  Stanley Kunitz (1974). “The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970”, Harvill Secker

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• ...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Doe, Bread

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

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• It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Looking To The Future, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds us, sets our stance. But what we remember is past, it no longer exists, and yet we hold on to it, live by it, surrender so much control to it. What do we become when we put down the scripts written by history and memory, when each person before us can be seen free of the cultural or personal narrative we've inherited or devised? When we, ourselves, can taste that freedom.

  Rebecca Walker

  Memories, Past, Views

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• I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Solitude

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• Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and lives by it? This was a sticky question because it would have to be Ranger ...but I suspected he occasionally killed people. Only bad people, of course, but still...

  Janet Evanovich

  People, Rangers, Sticky

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.340, Macmillan

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• Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Sorrow, May

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151, Oxford Paperbacks

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• ...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)

  Ralph Keyes

  Block, Writing, Waiting

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• The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Everyday, Three

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.434, St. Martin's Press

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• I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

  Sylvia Plath

  Organs

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Winter Trees”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Heart, Heart Break, Break

  Stanley Kunitz, Kent P. Ljungquist (2013). “Conversations with Stanley Kunitz”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

  Herman Wouk

  House, Free Spirit, Patterns

  Herman Wouk (1970). “This is my God: the Jewish way of life”, Touchstone

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• I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd believe in if it wasn't for that.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Love Is, Wonder

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