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Life and Death

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Carl Sandburg, in Life and Death

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Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana, in Life and Death

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Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

David A. Schmaltz, in Life and Death

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Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel, in Life and Death

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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, in Life and Death

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A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.

Josef Stalin, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

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He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

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Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky, in Life and Death

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I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.

Gary Trudeau, in Life and Death

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The Earth is the cradle of the mind — but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, in Life and Death

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Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire, in Life and Death

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Karl Wallenda, in Life and Death

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Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.

Brian Warner, in Life and Death

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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White, in Life and Death

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder, in Life and Death

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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Earl Wilson, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

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All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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