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Life and Death

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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln, in Life and Death

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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vincent T. Lombardi, in Life and Death

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Timothy Luce, in Life and Death

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham, in Life and Death

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If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.

Count Jean Baptiste Milhoud, in Life and Death

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The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu, in Life and Death

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The difficulty in life is the choice.

George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, act IV, 1900, in Life and Death

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Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash, in Life and Death

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Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death

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What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death

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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler, in Life and Death

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Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Plato, in Life and Death

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Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.

Edgar Allan Poe, in Life and Death

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We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

John V. Politis, in Life and Death

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Ross Presser, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert Prochnow, in Life and Death

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There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Paul Rudnick, in Life and Death and Science and Religion

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