- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living Quotes
On making a life, and making a living.
This set of living quotes includes a sharply critical political opinion, presented here strictly as the quote's own stated view about the administration it describes, alongside a separate observation about how thin the line has become between personal and professional life. Related reflections continue in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.
- Air Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
- At Least One
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are about 300,000 neighborhoods in the United States, and more than half of them have at least one millionaire living there. Most millionaires drive American cars. Out of the top 30 or 40 makes and models, Ford is number one, with about 10 percent of the market share.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordinary is their ability to accumulate wealth, how hard they work, and what they do for a living.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
- Envy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Senate could use more people who had to sweat for a living and fewer of the politicians who made this mess.
- Nov 07, 2020
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love living in London.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020