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- Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)
- Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
- Don DeLillo
- The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
- Richard Bach
- Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York.
- Harry Ruby
- Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
- Captial punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
- Orrin Hatch, Republican senator
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.
- Josephine Hart, "Sin"
- The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.
- David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
- The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
- James Joseph Sylvester
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