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| Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all. |
| George Santayana |
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| One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. |
| Marshall McLuhan |
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| Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. |
| Seneca |
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| Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity. |
| Werner von Braun |
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| People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long |
| Seneca |
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| The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. |
| Maya Angelou |
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| The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. |
| Henry Miller |
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| The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. |
| William James |
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| The greatest wealth is to live content with little. |
| Plato |
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| The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. |
| Victor Hugo |
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| The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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| The object of living is work, experience, happiness |
| Henry Ford |
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