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- When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
- Hannibal Buress
- The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act IV, sc. 1
- His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!'
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
- Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2
- But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act V, sc. 4
- We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Fireside chat on national defense, May 26, 1940
- We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Fireside chat on national defense, May 26, 1940
- Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.
- Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 08-15-2011
- Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
- When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics, book 1, chapter 2
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