- Harmony
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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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- Fifteenth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The precariat consists of a growing proportion of our total society. It is being habituated to accept a life of unstable labour and unstable living. Often they're unable to say what their occupation is, because what they're doing now might be quite different from what they were doing three months ago.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing - my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what I was told to do. Forty-four years later, I am left with only one means of making a living: comedy.
- Cats
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- Nov 07, 2020