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• I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.

  Menno Simons

  Taught, Spirit, Lord

  Menno Simons (1871). “The Complete Works of Menno Simons”, p.285

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• Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

  Linus Torvalds

  Complaining, Can Do

  "Linux: Linus on Choice". Post the Linux Kernel Mailing List, web.archive.org. September 24, 2003.

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• Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

  James E. Faust

  Priorities, Firsts, Prepared

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• The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Air, Names, Theatre

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• Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Such visions and hope and faith are not a part of science.

  Arthur Compton

  Life, Lying, Real

  "The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton".

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• Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

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• It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Baby, Men, Support

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Etruscan Places”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• Aviators live by hours, not by days.

  T. H. White

  Aviation, Flight, Hours

  "England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

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• Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Envy

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Heart, Government

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). “Life as I find it [by] Mark Twain [pseud.] Essays, sketches, tales, and other material, the majority of which is now published in book form for the first time: edited, with an introd. and notes”

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• You can't make everyone happy no matter what. All I can do is live my life and try to be successful and please myself. I have my own morals I live by. Bill Cosby once said, 'I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.' I agree with that. I live my life my way. I try to do the right thing, but I know there are going to be people who aren't happy with what I do or say no matter what, so I'm not going to worry about it.

  B.J. Penn

  Successful, Keys, Worry

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• I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them - that's just the way I am they make me feel good about who I am.

  Louis C. K.

  Who I Am, Feel Good, Way

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• The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent. It comes to the man who is depending on God in the thick of the fight. It comes to the one who tarries for the vision in faith. It comes to the one who believes that he who waits upon the Lord shall never be confounded. It comes to the one who rests upon the promises of the Word. It comes to the man who lives by faith as if in the actual possession of the answer to his prayer, although the enemy is still around him. It is faith which turns distress into singing.

  Alan Redpath

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  "The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David".

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• I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Believe, Values, I Believe

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• The truth is that seals look more like dogs. And I'm surrounded by seals because I live by the sea. They're odd bloody creatures. Not fish, they don't have gills, they should have legs, but they don't. They're the weirdest things, you know?

  Neil Jordan

  Dog, Odd, Truth Is

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

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• Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

  Dianna Agron

  Beautiful, Words To Live By, True Words

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• The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

  Bruce Lee

  Time, Trying, Schedules

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where spirituality really lost its way. When it became a stick to beat people with. ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.’ You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Good Life, Nice

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• To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

  David McCullough

  Art, Responsibility, Alive

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 06, 2012

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• Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.

  Charlton Heston

  Men, Law, Grace

  "Moses Film Role Awes Portrayer". "Los Angeles Times" Newspaper, October 28, 1956.

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• But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Teacher, Ideas, Grace

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.198, Vintage

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• If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

  Enid Bagnold

  God, Dog, Animal

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• Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it

  Pip Karmel

  Choices, Way, Firsts

  Pip Karmel (2000). “Me Myself I: A Novel”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Strong, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.514

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