- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live Quotes
Different ways of living, side by side.
This collection uses "live" as its thread but covers unusually varied ground — from reflections on how long humanity might last, to observations about wealth and poverty coexisting closely in Mexico. For quotes on love and connection, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I tell people in Berkeley, Calif., where I live, that I'm headed to the beach in Alabama, they are shocked. Most people outside of the Gulf Coast have no idea that Alabama has beaches - even though if you look at a map of Alabama, there is a part of it that looks as if it should belong to Florida.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens - except for the teeny, tiny, mind-boggling fact that if you live in Puerto Rico, you are not allowed to cast a vote in the election for president. That tiny fact starts to get bigger when you realize that electing our own leaders is the whole reason that we have a country in the first place.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020