History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows.
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence levelI mean the wages of decent living.
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Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until so
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So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.
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All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a daydreamer to be living a kind of double li
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
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Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are.. Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
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