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Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know… — P.D. James
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days… — Marcel Proust
When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts.… — Richard Ford
The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious… — John McGahern
I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We… — Maya Angelou
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die;… — James Weldon Johnson
Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during… — Thomas Paine
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.Â I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to… — Anais Nin
I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel. — Zell Miller
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor. — Jack Kingston
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death. — C.S. Lewis
Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is… — C.S. Lewis
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists. — Gyorgy Ligeti
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must… — Maya Angelou
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of… — William Butler Yeats
You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out… — Sterling W Sill
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that… — Malcolm Muggeridge
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we… — Rachel Naomi Remen
I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way. — Paul Anka
We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke… — Mike Pence

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