#live

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. ↗

— Horace

#content #find #guest #happy #happy life

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#came #come #family #had #lived

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. ↗

— King Hussein I

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The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

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Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. ↗

— Jinato Hu

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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live. ↗

— Ruth Hubbard

#comprehend #disciplines #easier #economics #live

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#born #brief #changes #changing #children

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week. ↗

— Basil Hume

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