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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. ↗

— William James

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What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. ↗

— Charles Ives

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All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#entertain #home #idea #life #live

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. ↗

— Michael Johnson

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My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. ↗

— John H. Johnson

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Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be the most important night of your life. Some day -some night- I hope you both may know it, with whoever it may be: the wish, stealing up on you, not to just merge bodies, but all you have, all your years, all your memories up to that point. And why should you wish to do that, if you haven't already guessed that your future too, will be shared? ↗

— Graham Swift

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