Famous Quotes: Life

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.
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To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
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