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• We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

  Iris Murdoch

  Light, Self, Secret

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea”

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• The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source.

  Edward Everett

  Men, Law, Land

  Edward Everett (1839). “Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.62

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• It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

  Bo Derek

  Believe, People, Decision

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• The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Spiritual, Thinking, Discovery

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• I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

  John Cage

  Sound, Lessons, Remember

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Stars, Men, Self

  "The House by the Side of the Road" l. 7 (1898)

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• I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

  Pitbull

  Country, Usa, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

  Walt Disney

  Real, Giving, Imagination

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• I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Doe, Way

  "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office" (2001 - 2003), www.imdb.com.

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• ...You cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by faith. It either has to be by faith or by fear, by faith or by sight. Which way are you living? Faith takes out the anxiety It takes out the fear. Faith leans heavy on the Lord. It knows that the Bible is so and can be trusted and that we can live by it and all of our needs will be supplied.

  Lester Roloff

  Christian, Sight, Anxiety

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• I can no longer live by thinking.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, I Can

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• Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

  Criss Jami

  Beautiful, Mistake, Mean

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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• Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?

  Mark Salzman

  Eye, Differences, Darkness

  Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.153, Vintage

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• I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Gentleman, Rich, Poor

  1903 Mendoza and John Tanner. Man and Superman, act 3.

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• This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

  Anne Wilkes Tucker

  Book, Texas, Titles

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• Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Want, Break, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.58, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Two, Soul

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.90, Macmillan

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• The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

  Aeschylus

  Truth, Pain, Suffering

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• Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

  Laura Riding

  Disappointment, Self, Victory

  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1939). “Lives of Wives”

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• Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Pride, Train Of Thought, Track

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Broadview Press

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• The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you've got to believe them and live by them.

  James MacDonald

  Christian, Believe, Order

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.66, Moody Publishers

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• Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Art, Believe

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• Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.

  Patrick Geddes

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

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• The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of salvation is nil. Unless Conscience and the Cardinal Virtues form the food that people live on, just take my word for it, they're utterly lost - every single living soul among them!

  William Langland

  Wisdom, Teaching, Justice

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• Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.

  Anne Lamott

  Confused, Writing, Knowing

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