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• O'Connor lives by the following words: You don't look back. When people ask O'Connor now, "Aren't you sorry you resigned because everything you voted for is being reversed by the current court?" She says, "You can't look back."

  Linda Hirshman

  Sorry, People

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• We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

  William Temple

  Love, Atheist, Names

  William Temple (1965). “Daily readings”

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• The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Sacrifice, Principles, Complacency

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.440, Bantam Classics

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• Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

  Abram Joseph Ryan

  Life, Art, Years

  Abram Joseph Ryan (1973). “Selected poems of Father Ryan”

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• When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

  Horace Dyer

  Teenager, Kids, Power

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• All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

  Ronald Knox

  Loyalty, Thinking, Men

  Ronald Knox (2010). “In Soft Garments: Classic Catholic Apologetics”, p.105, Ignatius Press

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• Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hurt, Men

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.131, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

  Howard Ruff

  Inspirational, Monday, Time

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• Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

  Ray Noorda

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Jobs, Lying

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 08, 2013

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• All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

  William Johnson Cory

  Time, Space, Law

  'Mimnermus in Church'

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

  Edward B. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mother, Men

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• If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to lead. Let us remember that the Bible contains two proverbs we cannot afford to forget. The first is ""Man does not live by bread alone"" and the second is ""Where there is no vision, the people perish.""

  Charles Luckman

  Faith, Men, Two

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• Live by faith and not by fear.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Inspirational, Spiritual

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• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  "Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan". Book by Carlos Castaneda, p. 85, 1971.

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• You cannot live by feelings and emotions; you have to live by your intuition and consciousness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Bhajans, Feelings

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• We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love;
  And, even as these are well and wisely fixed,
  In dignity of being we ascend.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, And Love, Dignity

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.482

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• I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Love Is, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.926, Everyman's Library

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• Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  W. T. Purkiser

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

  Max Lerner

  Power, Culture, Brutal

  Max Lerner (1939). “It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy”, p.223, Transaction Publishers

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• We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hope, Believe, Want

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• Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

  James Baker

  Agendas, Fellows

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• Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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