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- To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- The course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
- The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
- Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
- Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
- Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
- Quintilian
- The absent are always in the wrong.
- English Proverb
- My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), "Some notes on my poetry" Collected Poems, 1957
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