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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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are artists who make their living now going to conventions... because now you can.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book artists and original artwork in real life, up close. That was when I first realized that this is what I wanted to do for a living.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aside from bringing back extinct species, reanimation could help living ones by restoring lost genetic diversity. The Tasmanian devil (aka Sarcophilus harrisii) is so inbred at this point that most species members can exchange tumor cells without rejection.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.
- Nov 07, 2020
Living well is the best revenge.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020