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Results of search for Quote: life - Page 120 of 156
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
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Jean Toomer
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
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Henry Boye
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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Edwin Whipple
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), Jr.
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
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W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
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Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality
The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.
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Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
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Michael Johnson
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