- Life
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.
- Favored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the privilege of living in Greece in the early 1970s.
- Feeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020