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• I wanted to create my own world, a world full of color, where everyone could play. One big party that never ends.

  Michael Alig

  Party, Color, Play

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• Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

  Alex Webb

  Journey, Sight, Projects

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• A man should keep on being constructive, and do constructive things. He should take part in the things that go on in this wonderful world. He should be someone to be reckoned with. He should live life and make every day count, to the very end. Sometimes it’s tough. But that’s what I’m going to do.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Live Life, Men, Goes On

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• The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.

  Naftali Bennett

  Fighting, Israel, Land

  "The Party Faithful". Interview with David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

  Isaac Watts

  Flower, Night, Journey

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.468

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• A thousand ages in Thy sight
  Are like an evening gone;
  Short as the watch that ends the night
  Before the rising sun.

  Isaac Watts

  Night, Sight, Age

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.148

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• Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing...You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish

  Yann Martel

  Life, Simple, Games

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.292, Canongate Books

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• When we are angry, we will use a lie as fast as a truth if we can hurt with it. Anger feels strong but it is actually a disguised weakness. To someone with their eyes closed, all the pictures that you show them will seem the same. It is better to whisper words of love instead of trying to find a better picture. The end of a relationship is not a failure any more than the end of a book is a failure.

  Pat McBride

  Life, Strong, Hurt

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• No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants

  Stephen King

  Life, Matter, Lasts

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• Why are the people starving?-
  Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes
  That's why they're starving
  
  Why are people rebellious?-
  Because those above them meddle in their lives
  That's why they're rebellious
  
  Why do people regard death so lightly?-
  Because they are so involved with their own living
  That's why they regard death so lightly
  
  In the end,
  The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on
  and gained by those who let go

  Laozi

  Life, Letting Go, People

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• When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

  Laozi

  Life, Strong, Army

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• Look, and it can't be seen.
  Listen, and it can't be heard.
  Reach, and it can't be grasped.
  
  Above, it isn't bright.
  Below, it isn't dark.
  Seamless, unnamable,
  it returns to the realm of nothing.
  Form that includes all forms,
  image without an image,
  subtle, beyond all conception.
  
  Approach it and there is no beginning;
  follow it and there is no end.
  You can't know it, but you can be it,
  at ease in your own life.
  Just realize where you come from:
  this is the essence of wisdom.

  Laozi

  Life, Dark, Essence

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• The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Life, Mean, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies--and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Nature, Attitude

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.9, Souvenir Press

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• Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Work, Cutting

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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• Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

  Epicurus

  Life, Pleasure, Living Happily

  "Briefing" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Needs, Kind

  "The City of God".

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• By seeing life's experiences on through to the end, on our small scale we can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, "It is finished". We too can then have "finished [our] preparations," having done the particular work God gave each of us to do.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Jesus, Taken

  "Men and Women of Christ".

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• Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Fall, Blessing

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1920). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: In English”

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• No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Life, Peace, Thinking

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• The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Long, Mechanic

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.453, Delphi Classics

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• The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Life, Morning, Artist

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• Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Business, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.304

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• I'm weary of conjectures, - this must end 'em.
  Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life,
  My bane and antidote, are both before me:
  This in a moment brings me to an end;
  But this informs me I shall never die.
  The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
  At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
  The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
  Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
  Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Crush, Stars

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Garden, Years

  'Imitation of Horace' (1714).

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