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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.
- Nov 07, 2020