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She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you. ↗

— Angela Lam Turpin

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It's better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb. ↗

— George Rodriguez

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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid. ↗

— Aberjhani

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Life is what you portrait it! ↗

— Mohammad Hossein Khosh Bayan

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There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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When you've got everything and think you've got nothing you've actually got less ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself. ↗

— Bruce Lee

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Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth. ↗

— Katina Ferguson

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Once you understand life--you understand life's potential. ↗

— Sean Baltz

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Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness," he enumerated silkily. "You are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact or they are content to go down with all flags flying. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

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