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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted… — Brooks Atkinson
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's… — Chinua Achebe
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — Wystan Hugh Auden
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. — Marcus Aurelius
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,… — Sri Aurobindo
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have… — Diane Ackerman
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the… — Ansel Adams
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about… — Christian Bale
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to… — P T Barnum
We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad… — Ed Begley, Jr.
I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. — Saul Bellow
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going… — Ingrid Bergman
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper… — Alfred Adler
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. — Theodor Adorno
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. — Theodor Adorno
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first… — Josh Billings

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